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 JOHNSONIt very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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