Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
From Samuel Johnson
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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