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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. – Samuel Johnson

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. – Voltaire

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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. Its the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. – Adam Ant

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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle. – Johannes Kepler

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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are. – Cesar Chavez

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