"And as men diversions increase from the world,……" — John Owen

More Diversion Quotes

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• Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which… — John Berger
• Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we… — George W. Bush
• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading… — Joseph Addison
• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret… — Mary Wortley Montagu
• A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and… — William Penn
• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion,… — Blaise Pascal
• Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease. — B. C. Forbes
• I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to… — Susanna Wesley
• The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be… — Wilfred Trotter
• Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific… — Jose Raul Capablanca
• There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other… — Hal Borland
• But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens… — Unknown Author

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