There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
SAMUEL JOHNSONHe who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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