If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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