There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest…

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled...

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled...

Nature is a hanging judge

Nature is a hanging judge

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a...

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a...

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful...

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful...

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in...

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in...

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

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

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on...

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on...

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

A jest breaks no bones

A jest breaks no bones

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of...

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of...

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us