Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh

No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh

Money confounds subordination

Money confounds subordination

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does...

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what...

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what...

To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from...

To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from...

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to...

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to...

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing...

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing...

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done,...

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done,...

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the...

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the...

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

No man was ever great by imitation.

No man was ever great by imitation.