Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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 you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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