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 JOHNSONLanguage is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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