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Time Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
- Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of…
- I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency…
- Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
- 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…
- Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time…
- Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame
- Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his…
- He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- 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…
- A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
- But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the…
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
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