Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
SAMUEL JOHNSONEach person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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