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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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