A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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