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Lasts Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not…
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
- 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.…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only…
- Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course…
- Reason and truth will prevail at last
- The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
- The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
- Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears…
- The first years of man must make provision for the last.
- I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,…
- Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift…
- We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
More Lasts Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Fight to the last gasp. — William Shakespeare
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- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,… — James A. Baldwin