"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
― Samuel Johnson
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More From Samuel Johnson
- "Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them."
- "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."
- "By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."
More In Great
- "There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I’m sitting here and doing great."― Matthew Perry
- "It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."― Zooey Deschanel
- "There is a time for all things – except marriage, my dear."― Thomas Chatterton