Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be...

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be...

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world...

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to...

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want...

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want...

A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he...

A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek...

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not...

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not...

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades...

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades...

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

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

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

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

The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that...

The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that...

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that...

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own...

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own...

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his...

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his...