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Focus Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
- Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.
- There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and…
- He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are…
- Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
- When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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