The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Quote by Samuel Johnson
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The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
- You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
- We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Best Quotes
- When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
- Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
- Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- He was as great as a man can be without morality.
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
- It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
- I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
- What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?