The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

To a poet nothing can be useless

To a poet nothing can be useless

Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be...

Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be...

Language is the dress of thought.

Language is the dress of thought.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of...

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of...

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...

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them...

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

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,...

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our...

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our...

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.