You can never be wise unless you love reading.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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 more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Truth allows no choice.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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