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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pa

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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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson

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Wine
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Samuel Johnson
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Future
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The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. – Goethe

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I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. – Marcus Porcius Cato

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Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. – W.N. Rieger

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It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. РMaurice Barre̬s, La Grande Piti̩ des ̩glises de France, 1914

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The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. – Marcel Proust

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The paradox of gifts: I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. – Source Unknown

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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. – Eric Hoffer

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