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Inspirational Quotes by Dr. Samuel Johnson

Index_card_top “There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784);
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Index_card_top “If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784);
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Index_card_top “What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784);
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Index_card_top “Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784);
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Index_card_top “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784);
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Index_card_top “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.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784);
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Index_card_top “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784);
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Index_card_top “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784);
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“He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784);
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