Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Author: Samuel Johnson
To love one that is great is almost to be great one's self.
To love one that is great is almost to be great one's self.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
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.
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.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The future is purchased by the present.
The future is purchased by the present.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.