Quote by Samuel Johnson
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. - Samuel John

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

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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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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Other Quotes from
Helping
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Improvement begins with I. – Arnold Glasow

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Helping

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. – Confucius

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Helping

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. – Horace Mann

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See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Be a rebel against gravity: Skip! – Jessi Lane Adams

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Skipping

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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History
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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History

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. – Mike Adams

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Science