The future is purchased by the present.
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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites 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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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