What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with dili… — Quoted

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“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”

Samuel Johnson · Hope

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Samuel Johnson

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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Samuel Johnson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Knowledge

Samuel Johnson

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

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Samuel Johnson

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

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