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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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