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Fixed Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of…
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not…
- I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without…
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- I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man. — Thomas Jefferson
- The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. — Benjamin Cardozo