Quote by Samuel Johnson
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliber

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. – Samuel Johnson

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Vacations
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson

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Strangers
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. – Edmund Wilson

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Carpe Diem

Life, if well lived, is long enough. – Seneca, De Ira

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Carpe Diem

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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Carpe Diem

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar. – Horace

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Carpe Diem

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A little man often cast a long shadow. – Italian Proverb

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Isnt it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds? – Camryn Manheim

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The ballplayer who loses his head, who cant keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all. – Lou Gehrig

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The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly calm. – Isak Dinesen

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