Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThere must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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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 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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The future is purchased by the present.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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