Samuel Johnson
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
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My mother is a walking miracle.
One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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