Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Truth allows no choice.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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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 matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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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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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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