Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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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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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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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