Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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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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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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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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