The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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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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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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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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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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