Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCuriosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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