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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More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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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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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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 superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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