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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

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
Author
Samuel Johnson
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Money
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Success
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Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. – Marcus Garvey

Category:
Success

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation. – Sandra Day OConnor

Category:
Success

If you have no critics youll likely have no success. – Malcolm X

Category:
Success

I think the success of democracy is not really police security its the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends. – King Abdullah II

Category:
Success

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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude. – Imelda Marcos

Category:
Attitude

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. – Vaclav Havel

Category:
Hope

Smoking kills. If youre killed, youve lost a very important part of your life. – Brooke Shields

Category:
funny

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, Hey, women already rule my life. But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage. – Dee Dee Myers

Category:
Change