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What did Samuel Johnson say about Great?

Samuel Johnson has written many quotes about Great. E.g.,

  • There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
  • 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.
  • 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.

What are the top most famous Great quotes by Samuel Johnson?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Great by Samuel Johnson.

  • There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
  • To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
  • Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
  • Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
  • Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
  • A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
  • I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.