To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until...

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until...

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation...

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation...

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can;...

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can;...

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Little people do not wear well under either extremes of fortune

Little people do not wear well under either extremes of fortune

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

Love is only one of many passions.

Love is only one of many passions.

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what...

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what...

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

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

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

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as...

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as...

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

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...

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a talent; my sole...

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a talent; my sole...

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create...

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great...