People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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