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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Dont think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. – Joseph De Maistre

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Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. – John Bunyan

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Why resist temptation? There will always be more. – Don Herold

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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. – Margaret Oliphant

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Im very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it – going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert. – Albert Ellis

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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasnt. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. – Monica Lewinsky

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