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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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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

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Imagination
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Samuel Johnson
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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. – Samuel Johnson

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Mathematics
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Samuel Johnson
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The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. – Søren Kierkegaard

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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason. – John Henry Cardinal Newman

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The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. – D.H. Lawrence

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root… – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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