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Imperceptibly Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity…
- Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon…
More Imperceptibly Quotes
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough
- In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. — Gavin Bryars
- Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require… — Herodotus
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one… — Doris Lessing