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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONLife affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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