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Quote by Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrate

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge
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Samuel Johnson
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

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Women
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
category

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. – Dr. Seuss

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Carpe Diem

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Carpe Diem

If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace… — treasure them. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Carpe Diem

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar. – Horace

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Carpe Diem

Random Quotes

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. – Stephen King

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Home

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

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History

And thats the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. – Stan Dunn

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World

Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

Category:
Attitude