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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficult

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. – Samuel Johnson

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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Truth
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Samuel Johnson
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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Creation
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Samuel Johnson
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Writing
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. – Ben Stein

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Success

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success. – Joe Nichols

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Success

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. – Elbert Hubbard

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Success

The kind of theater that I do is sort of narrative realism, which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Loris plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist. – Tony Kushner

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Success

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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. – Erica Jong

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. – Joseph Conrad

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I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. – Julia Margaret Cameron

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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