The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe future is purchased by the present.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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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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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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