Quote by Samuel Johnson
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. F

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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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. – William James

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Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas A. Edison

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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. – Condoleezza Rice

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When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. – Robert Anton Wilson

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My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when youre in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home. – Carson Daly

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