Samuel Johnson | men
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Samuel Johnson | knowledge
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Samuel Johnson | knowledge
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 will make no man wise.
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Samuel Johnson | knowledge
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Samuel Johnson | knowledge
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Samuel Johnson | knowledge
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Samuel Johnson | imagination
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Samuel Johnson | hope
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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