Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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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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