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"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
Samuel Johnson"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."
Samuel Johnson"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
Samuel Johnson"Words are but the signs of ideas."
Samuel Johnson"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."
Samuel Johnson"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
Samuel Johnson"What is easy is seldom excellent."
Samuel Johnson"Exercise is labor without weariness."
Samuel Johnson"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
Samuel Johnson"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
Samuel Johnson"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
Samuel Johnson"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."
Samuel Johnson"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
Samuel Johnson"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Samuel Johnson"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Samuel Johnson"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
Samuel Johnson"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."
Samuel Johnson"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."
Samuel Johnson"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
Samuel Johnson"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
Samuel Johnson"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Samuel Johnson"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."
Samuel Johnson"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Samuel Johnson"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
Samuel Johnson"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
Samuel Johnson"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
Samuel Johnson"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
Samuel Johnson"My dear friend, clear your mind of cant."
Samuel Johnson"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
Samuel Johnson"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
Samuel Johnson"Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich."
Samuel Johnson"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
Samuel Johnson"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."
Samuel Johnson"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
Samuel Johnson"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes."
Samuel Johnson"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."
Samuel Johnson"He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade."
Samuel Johnson"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
Samuel Johnson"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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