Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhat is easy is seldom excellent.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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