Samuel Johnson Quotes

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"Our aspirations are our possibilities."
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Aspirations Possibilities
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"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."
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Marriage
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"I beg to submit that it is the first."
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Samuel Johnson
"The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another"
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Irish
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"Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal."
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"The triumph of hope over experience"
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Experience
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"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship"
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Complaints
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"In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause"
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Samuel Johnson
"Round numbers are always false"
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Samuel Johnson
"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."
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Samuel Johnson
"He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty"
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Certainty
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"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still"
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Fly
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"Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God."
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Conscience Fear
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"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well."
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Duty
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"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."
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Knowledge

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