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 JOHNSONGrief is a species of idleness.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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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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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find 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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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