The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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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 man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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 next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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