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Day Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;…
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a…
- The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
- Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the…
- But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite…
- To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
- Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as…
- 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…
- These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
- To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from day to day with materials for conversation, it is difficult…
- To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited…
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make anew acquaintance.
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- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe