Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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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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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.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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