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- People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
- What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Lives of the Poets
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. 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 (1709 - 1784)
- Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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