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Eagerness Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
- There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care…
More Eagerness Quotes
- That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt
- The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that… — Robert South
- The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because… — Dion Fortune
- One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to… — Irving Howe
- The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with… — S. N. Goenka
- I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the… — Gouverneur Morris
- Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority,… — Aristotle