The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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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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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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