"Great works are performed, not by strength, but……" — 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 space equal to the circumference of the globe."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles,…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we…
— Samuel Johnson
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Move inwards! Contentment is a quality of your center; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you…
— Rajneesh
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Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly…
— Augustus De Morgan
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Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You…
— H. Rider Haggard
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Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual…
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The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat…
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You will have to relax from the circumference. The first step in relaxing is the body. Remember as many times…
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The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an…
— Richard Preston
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is…
— Laura Riding
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Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
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