ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
Quote by Samuel Johnson
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ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
- I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
- An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
- If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
- You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
- A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
- It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Best Quotes
- We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
- God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
- The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
- Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
- I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.
- You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
- That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
- The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
- I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.