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

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. – Samuel Johnson

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Birthday
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

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Art
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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. – Samuel Johnson

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great
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. – Jonathan Swift

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Carpe Diem

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. – Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

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Carpe Diem

You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin

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Carpe Diem

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain

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Carpe Diem

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Don Quixotes misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. – Franz Kafka

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Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but its making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out. – Vanessa Paradis

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Change

You wont find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies dont speak to me. People dont come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think Im this dark, twisted, miserable person. – Naomi Watts

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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave. – Henry Ward Beecher

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