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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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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

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The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. – Samuel Johnson

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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. – Al Bernstein

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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the games two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself. – Jack Nicklaus

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I think that everything you do helps you to write if youre a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you dont experience either one of those, youre being deprived of something. – Shelby Foote

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Whenever I hear, It cant be done, I know Im close to success. – Michael Flatley

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. – Jonathan Swift

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The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education. – Ron Kind

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Guests bring good luck with them. – Turkish Proverb

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In times of great stress or adversity, its always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca

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