Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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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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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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