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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

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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge
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Samuel Johnson
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson

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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. – Samuel Johnson

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854

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Every second is of infinite value. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Walter Scott

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