Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit…

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

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...

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write....

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write....

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly...

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of...

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of...

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it...

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it...

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him...

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him...

Truth allows no choice

Truth allows no choice

A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he...

A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he...

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen

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

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going...

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going...

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the...

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the...