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Passings Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life…
- Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
- 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…
- There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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