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Never Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
- He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
- We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
- Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there…
- Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our…
- We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the…
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