Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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