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Enlarged Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
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- In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal
- A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher
- My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years… — Claude Monet
- Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. — William Hazlitt
- Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson
- In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our… — Pico Iyer
- During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it… — Elizabeth of the Trinity
- Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and… — Astley Cooper
- Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the… — John Joseph Griffin
- To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene… — William Buckland