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Quote by Samuel Johnson
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. -

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Cowardice/Weakness
Author
Samuel Johnson
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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

Category:
Vacations
Author
Samuel Johnson
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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Tragedy
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Temptation
category

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Category:
Temptation

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

Category:
Temptation

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. – Francis H. Bradley

Category:
Temptation

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. – John Milton

Category:
Temptation

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Category:
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I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. – Marlene Dietrich

Category:
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My style is kind of eclectic and I dont like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you wont see the same design. – Venus Williams

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to ones reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy

Category:
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