Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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