9 Quotes by Samuel Johnson about mind
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Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.
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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude.
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
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Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.
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If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
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Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.
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