Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.
Samuel JohnsonMoney and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel JohnsonNo one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
Samuel JohnsonTags: friendship
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.
Samuel JohnsonDistance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Samuel JohnsonTags: perspective distance memory
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel JohnsonWickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
Samuel JohnsonMen know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Samuel JohnsonTags: fear intelligence strength equality gender men women weakness misogyny skills abilities superiority suppression
Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel JohnsonTags: rasselas
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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