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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Sa

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson

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Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson

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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. – Samuel Johnson

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Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. – Steven Seagal

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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot

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The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

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