It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe future is purchased by the present.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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