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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

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. – Samuel Johnson

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We have them just where they want us. – James T. Kirk

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Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. – George Bernard Shaw

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock

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A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. – Robert Frost

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