What is easy is seldom excellent.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIf 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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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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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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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