Tag: Samuel Johnson

That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.

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The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

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The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things–the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

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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 world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

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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 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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