Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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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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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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