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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things f

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – 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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Samuel Johnson
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson

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Reality
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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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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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Writing

An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

Be obscure clearly. – E.B. White

Category:
Writing

The universe will do the writing for you, if you just listen close enough. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

Random Quotes

Im sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I dont regret any of it. – Marc Maron

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. – Hyman Rickover

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Patience

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Birth

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – next year. – Eric Alterman

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Food