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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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 majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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