Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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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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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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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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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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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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