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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty."

Mind Lying Doubt
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning."

Mind Sound Taxation
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise."

Mind Style Benefits
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy."

Mind Solitude Retirement
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read."

Mind Reading Happiness
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm."

Mind Pain Harm
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages."

Mind Opportunity Advantage
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances."

Writing Mind Fashion
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect."

Writing Mind Suffering
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Mind

"Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied."

Mind Pride Intellectual
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
Mind

"It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village."

War Mind Peace
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Rebecca Miller Filmmaker, Writer
Mind

"When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines."

Writing Mind Discipline
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