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Away Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay…
- To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of…
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of…
- When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves…
- An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time…
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his…
- Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
- Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no…
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in…
- The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes…
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
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