He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from...

To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from...

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience...

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience...

The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor,...

The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor,...

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 present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and...

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and...

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so...

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so...

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...

But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the...

But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the...

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him...

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him...

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book

A man will turn over half a library to make one book

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not...

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not...

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it...

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it...

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die

What ills from beauty spring

What ills from beauty spring

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...

Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention,...

Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention,...

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never...

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never...