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Thoughts Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is…
- The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little…
- To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
- It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the…
- The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
- One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
- The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
- Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon…
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- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. — Francis Bacon