Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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 little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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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 man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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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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