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Excursions Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
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- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use.… — Samuel Johnson
- Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets… — John Muir
- I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully… — Ian Anderson
- A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice… — Zitkala-Sa
- Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in… — Eric Hobsbawm
- Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand… — C W Ceram