Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhat we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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