Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and d... -Samuel Johnson

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel....
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may ...
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are....
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance....
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...
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes ...
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope....
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence....
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spe...
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good....

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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone....
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that w...
Victims always feel alone and helpless....
I don't even know how much money I've spent on all of this stuff... Just in plates and bars alone, it's literally a ridiculous amount of money I've sp...
The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient....
I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone....
I really love football and for this reason alone, I trained hard every day, building up good stamina and energy....
I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but ...
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom i...
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone,...