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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. - Samuel J

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Observation
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Samuel Johnson
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Imagination
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Perspective
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. – George Santayana

Category:
Perspective

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry

Category:
Perspective

Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Perspective

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? – Stanislaw J. Lec

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Perspective

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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. – Joseph Wood Krutch

Category:
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Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you. – Norman Vincent Peale

Category:
Resentment

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself. – Tony Kanal

Category:
cool

Never get married in college its hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds youve already made one mistake. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Marriage