All Samuel Johnson Quotes
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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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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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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