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 JOHNSONThe true art of memory is the art of attention.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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