Famous quotes containing the words tire and/or pressures:
“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then youll be so weak you wont be able to believe the simplest true things.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Unlike Boswell, whose Journals record a long and unrewarded search for a self, Johnson possessed a formidable one. His life in Londonhe arrived twenty-five years earlier than Boswellturned out to be a long defense of the values of Augustan humanism against the pressures of other possibilities. In contrast to Boswell, Johnson possesses an identity not because he has gone in search of one, but because of his allegiance to a set of assumptions that he regards as objectively true.”
—Jeffrey Hart (b. 1930)
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