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Moments Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
- Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay…
- 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.…
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
- Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and…
- Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for…
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of…
- The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes…
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