Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
SAMUEL JOHNSONI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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