The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNone but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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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 a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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