You can never be wise unless you love reading.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Truth allows no choice.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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