No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCourage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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