Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
SAMUEL JOHNSONHow small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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If 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.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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