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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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Evangelism
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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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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. – Samuel Johnson

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Friendship
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Other Quotes from
Temptation
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue. – William Shakespeare

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Temptation

He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? Ecclesiasticus – Bible

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Temptation

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

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Temptation

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. – Joseph De Maistre

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Temptation

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. – Henry Miller

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What you get is a living, what you give is a life. – Lillian Gish

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No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. – Roger Ebert

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