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

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals...

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals...

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying...

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying...

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

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

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

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

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...

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings...

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings...

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...

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to...

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to...

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...

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,...

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...

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and...

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and...

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.