Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. — Quoted

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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”

Samuel Johnson · Great

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Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Happiness

Samuel Johnson

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

Great

Samuel Johnson

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Morning

Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Time