Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
SAMUEL JOHNSONDeviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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