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Intention Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating…
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
- The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams
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