Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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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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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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