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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Imitation
Samuel Johnson

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Courage
Samuel Johnson

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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
Calamity
Samuel Johnson

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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Army and Navy
Samuel Johnson

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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Perseverance
Samuel Johnson

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Ambition
Samuel Johnson

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He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
Neglect
Samuel Johnson

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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Food and Eating
Samuel Johnson

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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Wit
Samuel Johnson

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Friends and Friendship
Samuel Johnson

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Death and Dying
Samuel Johnson

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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Slander
Samuel Johnson

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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Pleasure
Samuel Johnson

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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Solitude
Samuel Johnson

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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Epitaphs
Samuel Johnson

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Wrong
Samuel Johnson

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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
Marriage
Samuel Johnson

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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Labor
Samuel Johnson

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Compromise
Samuel Johnson

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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Desire
Samuel Johnson

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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Simplicity
Samuel Johnson

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Knowledge
Samuel Johnson

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Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Antipathy
Samuel Johnson

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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Hope
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