Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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 Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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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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