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Wider Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends…
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
More Wider Quotes
- Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey
- A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name. — Annie Besant
- What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry… — Andrea Bocelli
- October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more… — Hal Borland
- Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping… — Bill Bryson
- But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power. — Joshua Chamberlain
- One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and… — Unknown Author
- One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism… — John C. Wright