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Useless Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
- Suspicion is most often useless pain.
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
- There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it…
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
- It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and…
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
- Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as…
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply…
- To a poet nothing can be useless
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- Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still… — G. Stanley Hall
- Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all… — George Matthew Adams
- The most useless are those who never change through the years. — James M. Barrie
- A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. — George Ade