He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any thing.
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Samuel Johnson Quote
“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.”
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