Quote by Samuel Johnson
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes t

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson

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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. – Samuel Johnson

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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts. – Victor Daniels

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon

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Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. – Woody Allen

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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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