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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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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. – Samuel Johnson

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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. – Samuel Johnson

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. – Theodore Roosevelt

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People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal. – Donald Trump

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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. – Ralph Nader

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He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. – Charles Lamb

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For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone. – Gerald R. Ford

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