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His Attention Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold…
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
More His Attention Quotes
- Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to… — Thomas Aquinas
- Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear… — Charles Brent
- The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big… — Jerry Bridges
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin
- In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have… — Janet Morris
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever… — Samuel Johnson
- [About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He… — Augustus De Morgan
- The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Simone Weil
- If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure… — Eduard Suess
- If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes… — Brody Jenner
- It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has… — David Suchet
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on… — Wystan Hugh Auden