People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNone but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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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 true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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