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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
Samuel Johnson
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
Samuel Johnson
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Samuel Johnson
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.
Samuel Johnson
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
Samuel Johnson
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
Samuel Johnson
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.
Samuel Johnson
I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
Samuel Johnson
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 Johnson
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