Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Truth allows no choice.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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