The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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