When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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