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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Samuel Johnson Quotes

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

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

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense....

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense....

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to...

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...

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

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

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some...

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some...

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect,...

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect,...

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little...

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little...

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

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

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

Round numbers are always false

Round numbers are always false

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil...

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil...

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of...

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of...

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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...

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil~

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil~

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel

Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third...

Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third...