Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
SAMUEL JOHNSONEach person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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