"Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly……" — Samuel Johnson

"Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity."

— Samuel Johnson

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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Your aspirations are your possibilities.
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…

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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too,… — Cyrano de Bergerac
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. — Elizabeth Bowen
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but… — Barbara Holland
By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'. — Miguel de Cervantes
Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they… — Cornel West
There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet,… — Samael Aun Weor
...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We… — Immanuel Kant
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed… — Leo Tolstoy
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys
Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out… — Jane Smiley
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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