When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe true art of memory is the art of attention.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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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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Truth allows no choice.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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