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对勤勉和技巧来说没有什么是不可能的伟大的作品不是靠力量完成的而是靠毅力
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Samuel Johnson, *The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia* (1759), Chapter XII ("The Story of Imlac Continued")
Editorial Note
Tracing this line back to the text of Johnson's *Rasselas* (1759), in Chapter XII, spoken by the character Imlac, where the wording matches exactly: "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." A competing lead pointed toward Samuel Taylor Coleridge's *Biographia Literaria*, but that passage is a different sentiment in different words and does not displace Johnson's documented authorship of this exact construction. Because the phrasing appears verbatim in a work Johnson himself published, the attribution is verified.
