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

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Cruelty
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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Friendship
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Carpe Diem
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. – Hamilton

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Carpe Diem

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854

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Carpe Diem

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London

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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. – William Penn

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Ive been in plenty of situations where someone Im dating had more time for a console than me. – Josie Maran

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