The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir,...

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir,...

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may...

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may...

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends

It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it...

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of...

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is...

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is...

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...

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole...

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole...

Actions are visible, though motives are secret

Actions are visible, though motives are secret

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

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

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even...

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even...

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

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

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should...

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should...

Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of...

Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of...

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.