"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 unnecessary pain."
― Samuel Johnson
Topic(s): Great
More From Samuel Johnson
- "Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
- "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- "No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
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- "Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."― Simone Weil
- "One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."― Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course."― Larry Bird