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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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Samuel Johnson
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Evangelism
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Success
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There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call “the breaks.” – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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Success

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Success

I dont think about my previous success. Im happy that the work Ive done has been very successful. – Aaliyah

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Success

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. – Richard Bach

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Success

Random Quotes

One does evil enough when one does nothing good. – German Proverb

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Integrity

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Suicide

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. – Robert Anton Wilson

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Truth

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. – Christopher Lasch

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Family