Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind...

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind...

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect...

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect...

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

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...

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue,...

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue,...

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with...

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with...

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...

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of...

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of...

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring...

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring...

In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be...

In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be...

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you...

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you...