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Strength Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
- 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…
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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