Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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