No one ever became great by imitation.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.Samuel Johnson
Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep But hear his death, ye blockheads hear and sleep.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.
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