"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
― Samuel Johnson
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Work
More From Samuel Johnson
- "Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."
- "You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
- "We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting."
More In Work
- "Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."― Chanakya
- "To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."― Pablo Picasso
- "Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."― Vince Lombardi