English - Author | September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
MindWillAnythingWhoBellyHe
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
TruthWorldLyingMoreThanMuch
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
RichPoorWithoutWouldNoneFew
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
LifeChangeHappyWishNothingNext
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
FriendshipLoveLove IsShortLong
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