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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Afford Difficult Life Pleasure
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Fools Himself Influence Power Worry
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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Determination Diligence Greatness Impossible Performance Perservance Skills Strength Work
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Information Man Reminder
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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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Associate Greatness Local Man Position
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Argument Myself Understand Yourself
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Diligence Hope Learning
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Himself Man Pride Vice
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Object Possible Try
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Concentration Death Focus Man Mindset Wonderful
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Business Happiness Himself Man
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Evil Man Misery Repeat

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

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