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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Samuel Johnson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Samuel Johnson