Samuel Johnson Quotes About Losing
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
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But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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