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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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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Gambling (Gaming)
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Samuel Johnson
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I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. – Samuel Johnson

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Sports :: Poker
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Samuel Johnson
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A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden. – Samuel Johnson

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Cows
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
category

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. – Elbert Hubbard

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Carpe Diem

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815

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Carpe Diem

though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. – e.e. cummings

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Carpe Diem

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. – Christian Furchtegott Gellert

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Carpe Diem

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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. – James Joyce

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Fear

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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Quotations

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America. – Arne Duncan

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Education

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross. – Charles Stanley

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work