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Quickened Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection…
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain
More Quickened Quotes
- The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout… — Sterling W Sill
- Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant,… — Klas Pontus Arnoldson
- The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have… — Martin Luther
- For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,… — Frederick Douglass
- In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their… — John Updike
- He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached… — Gautama Buddha
- Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested… — Walter Pater
- By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph… — Edvard Munch