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Formed Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
- When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few…
- The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
- The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
- 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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- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius
- I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many… — Teresa of Avila
- We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the… — Ann Scott
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its… — Saint Basil
- As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. — William Blake
- I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with… — Alan Alda