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 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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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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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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