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Employed Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
- No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
- There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
- What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so…
- To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
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