Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool...

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool...

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or...

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or...

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in...

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in...

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong...

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong...

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have...

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have...

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.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in...

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in...

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of...

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and...

Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and...

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a...

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a...

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus...

From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus...

Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.

Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.