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Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.
To do something is in every man's power.
Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
There would be few enterprises of great labor or hazard undertaken, if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages which we persuade ourselves to expect from them.
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
Kindness is in our power, but fondness is not.
Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Inspirational Quote
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Wise Quote
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
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