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For who is pleased with himself.
Happiness
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 never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Conversation
Samuel Johnson

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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Travel and Tourism
Samuel Johnson

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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Music
Samuel Johnson

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Law and Lawyers
Samuel Johnson

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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Pride
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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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson

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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
Respectability
Samuel Johnson

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Effort
Samuel Johnson

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Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Enemies
Ernest Jones

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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Punctuality
Franklin P. Jones

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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Fights and Fighting
Mother Jones

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.
Goals
Natasha Josefowitz

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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
Argument
Joseph Joubert

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Imagination
Joseph Joubert

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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Mind
Joseph Joubert

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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Duty
Joseph Joubert

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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Spirit and Spirituality
Joseph Joubert

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry and Poets
Joseph Joubert

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Age and Aging
Carl Jung

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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Youth
Carl Jung

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