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Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Sorrow
Samuel Johnson

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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Mistakes
Samuel Johnson

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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Approval
Samuel Johnson

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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
Habit
Samuel Johnson

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The future is purchased by the present.
The future
Samuel Johnson

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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
Habit
Samuel Johnson

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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Bed
Samuel Johnson

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope
Samuel Johnson

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Knowledge
Samuel Johnson

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The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson

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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson

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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Money
Samuel Johnson

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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson

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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Poverty and The Poor
Samuel Johnson

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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Kindness
Samuel Johnson

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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Secrets
Samuel Johnson

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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Laziness
Samuel Johnson

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We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
Gullibility
Samuel Johnson

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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
Temptation
Samuel Johnson

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Imagination
Samuel Johnson

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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Memory
Samuel Johnson

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Focus
Samuel Johnson

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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
Tragedies
Samuel Johnson

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Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Secrets
Samuel Johnson

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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
Night
Samuel Johnson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun