Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCuriosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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