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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."
"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Johnson
"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
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