If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
More Quotes from Johnson:
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.Johnson
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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He that never thinks can never be wise.
Johnson
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
Johnson
To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
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