Quote by Samuel Johnson
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of dark

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. – 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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The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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Time
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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Creation
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? – George Carlin

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Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. – Johann von Goethe

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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. – Louis Pasteur

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Now, Im not saying Im fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. – Miuccia Prada

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A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something. – Mo Rocca

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I didnt grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny – those are the things I got feedback on. – Lauren Graham

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