Samuel Johnson Quotes About Time
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Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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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.
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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
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Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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