Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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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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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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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