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Wise Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Your aspirations are your possibilities.
- He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
- Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
- To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of…
- Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life…
- Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But…
- The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- He that never thinks can never be wise.
- If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
- Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
- From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- 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…
- No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
- The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity…
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in…
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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