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Best Want Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
- We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
- Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
- Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
- Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow…
- We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
- He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance…
- It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.
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