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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

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Samuel Johnson
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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Fish, Fishing
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Samuel Johnson
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Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. – From the movie Finding Forrester

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Writing

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “All Trivia,” Afterthoughts, 1931

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Writing

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

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Writing

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. – Anton Chekhov

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Writing

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. – John Stuart Mill

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Happiness

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasnt personally sad about finishing a long job. – Carroll OConnor

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sad
[Marriage] …the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. – Mrs Patrick Campbell

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Weddings

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds. – William Bartram

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strength