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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCuriosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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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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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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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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