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Dr Johnson Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Teacher: Dr Johnson Quotes
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Sports: Dr Johnson Quotes
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Perseverance, Persistence: Dr Johnson Quotes
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Happiness: Dr Johnson Quotes
Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Friendship: Dr Johnson Quotes
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Friendship: Dr Johnson Quotes
If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Hope: Dr Johnson Quotes
In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

Friendship: Dr Johnson Quotes
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Life: Dr Johnson Quotes
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.

Self Esteem: Dr Johnson Quotes
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Habits: Dr Johnson Quotes
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Writing: Dr Johnson Quotes
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 one book.

Work: Dr Johnson Quotes
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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