Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA 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.
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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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