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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONBooks like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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