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Passed Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- 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…
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed…
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