Samuel Johnson Quotes About Boundaries

• We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Temptation, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.257

• I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

  Samuel Johnson

  Crucible, Body, Limits

• Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Distance, Law

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.148

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