Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe true art of memory is the art of attention.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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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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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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