Quote #23077
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Category Archives: Samuel Johnson
Quote #23093
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as...
Quote #23109
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for...
Quote #23125
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be...
Quote #23062
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where...
Quote #23078
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Quote #23094
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Quote #23110
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he...
Quote #23126
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into...
Quote #23063
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.