Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.Samuel Johnson
A mere literary man is a dull man a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel Johnson
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary, be not idle.
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