The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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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 a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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