Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCourage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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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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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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