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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson

Strength, Perseverance, Patience, Great

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. - Samuel Johnson

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. Samuel Johnson

Positive, Mind, Friend, Clear, Cant

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. - Samuel Johnson

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. Samuel Johnson

World, Staircase, Down, Like, Going, Up

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. - Samuel Johnson

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson

Kindness, Power, Our, Even, Fondness

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson

Good, Man, Measure, Measure Of A Man, He

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. Samuel Johnson

Passion, Justice, Revenge, Injuries, Act

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson

Great, Self-Confidence, First, Requisite

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

Integrity, Knowledge, Dangerous, Weak

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson

Life, Man, Tired, London, He, Afford

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. Samuel Johnson

Agriculture, Nation, She, Her, Own, Only

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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson

Hope, Learn, Diligence, First, Must

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

Strength, Perseverance, Great, You

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Samuel Johnson

Curiosity, Permanent, Most, Intellect

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. - Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. Samuel Johnson

Value, Diamonds, Gold, Praise, Only

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. Samuel Johnson

Time, Man, Wise, Pain, Value, Wise Man

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. Samuel Johnson

Autumn, Man, Flowers, Spring, Scent, He

Actions are visible, though motives are secret. Samuel Johnson

Motives, Actions, Secret, Visible

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Samuel Johnson

Strong, Broken, Habit, Weak, Chains, Too

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. Samuel Johnson

Conversation, Impression, Nothing, Which

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. Samuel Johnson

Nature, Sunshine, Enjoy, Quit, Will, He

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

Life, Nature, Happiness, Knowledge, Will

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson

Hope, Future, Moment, Losing, Mind

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson

Life, Man, Tired, You, Intellectual

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. Samuel Johnson

Man, Nothing, Everything, Anything, May

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Samuel Johnson

Patriotism, Last, Refuge, Scoundrel

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Samuel Johnson

Love, Want, Expectation, Disappointed

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