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Distant Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof…
- A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
- To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide…
- 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…
- Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the…
- It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but…
- Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in…
- There are charms made only for distant admiration.
More Distant Quotes
- Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people… — Hugo Black
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant… — Jean de la Bruyere
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual… — William Ellery Channing
- A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at… — Milan Kundera
- The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon,… — Nicholas Sparks
- Willow nestled against him. He smoothed her long hair down the back of her T-shirt, feeling its softness. In a few moments… — L.A. Weatherly