It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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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...

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.

There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.

I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for...

I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir,...

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir,...

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as...

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as...

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as...

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as...

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly...

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly...

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals...

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals...

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present

The triumph of hope over experience

The triumph of hope over experience

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your...

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your...

In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after...

In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after...