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Design Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.
- The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity…
- The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
- Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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