The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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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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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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