Quotes by Samuel Johnson about Things

8 quotes by Samuel Johnson about things

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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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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be...

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

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