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Passages Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of…
- The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his…
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is…
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That…
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