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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 of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Things which are in our possession are not regarded. We look at yonder for things

Samuel Johnson

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1309 There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
378 Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
1176 Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
1361 Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
371 Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

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