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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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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. – Samuel Johnson

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. – Samuel Johnson

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Death
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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The first requisite for immortality is death. – Stanislaw J. Lec

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An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. – Henry S. Haskins

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. – Sean OFaolain

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Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand. – Aly Khan

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