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«Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Perseverance,
Strength,
Work
| Keywords:
performed, perseverance
«The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken»
«Power is not sufficient evidence of truth»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Power,
Truth
| Keywords:
evidence, sufficient
«The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.»
«When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live»
«Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
increased, intermission, intermissions
«All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
advantages, Better To Travel, carries, countries, fortune, improve, passenger, visits
«You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword»
«Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accord, attach, attach to, cultivate, inclination, pains, prompt, prompting, prompts, spontaneous
«Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Achievement,
Life,
Pleasure,
Success,
Wishes
| Keywords:
affords, difficulties, forming, gratified, gratifies, one-step, passing, seeing, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, wishes
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