Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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 future is purchased by the present.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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