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Course Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course…
- He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
- As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
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