The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSONEach person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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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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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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