What is easy is seldom excellent.... -Samuel Johnson

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What is easy is seldom excellent.

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Samuel Johnson Quotes to Explore

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel....
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may ...
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are....
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance....
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining...
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 ...
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope....
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence....
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spe...
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good....

Experience Quotes to Explore

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing p...
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in b...
Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that ...
The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it....
Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer....
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy....
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later....
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our r...
The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet mor...
When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experien...