If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
SAMUEL JOHNSONSlander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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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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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Truth allows no choice.
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