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Wonder Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
- I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,…
- No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown…
- All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
- 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…
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
- That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,…
- You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
- I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but…
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