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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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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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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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