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Past Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which…
- One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
- Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold…
- The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or…
- When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
- Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
- It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and…
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
- Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing…
- For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed…
- Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in…
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
More Past Quotes
- There Is No Value Of What You Did In Past, Show Your Best Part Today. Everyone Wants To Read Today's Newspaper Coz… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Most important thing in life is to keep moving irrespective of the facts that you r hurt u r broken or betrayed… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- You never know what will be your future. So stop worrying about future. Enjoy every bit of your life forgetting about what… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar
- If You Translate Every Mistake Of Your Life Into a 'Positive' One, You Will Never Be A 'Prisoner Of Your Past', .… — Ritu Ghatourey
- There Is No Value Of What You Did In Past, Show ur Best Part Today. Bcoz Everyone Wants To Read Today's Newspaper… — Ritzy
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough