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Difficulty Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself…
- A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of…
- Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
- 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.
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- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the… — Samuel Johnson