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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity." -
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
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"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
"Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. "
"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake."
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