You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIf 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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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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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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