Grief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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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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