How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
SAMUEL JOHNSONBooks like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Truth allows no choice.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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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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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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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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