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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self.
By Samuel Johnson
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
By Samuel Johnson
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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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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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
By Samuel Johnson