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Attempt Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
- The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
- Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
- While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of…
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