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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNone but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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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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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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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