The future is purchased by the present.
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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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