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Look 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…
- There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- 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…
- All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
- Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing…
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
- Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very…
- In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or…
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make anew acquaintance.
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