Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSONEach person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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