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Ideas Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to…
- The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
- Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
- 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…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to…
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of…
- No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;…
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
- Wretched un-idea'd girls.
- In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
- I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
- Words are but the signs of ideas.
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