112. Devotion of Time
"It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind
is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. No man
would be a Judge, upon the condition of being totally a
Judge."
Boswell: Life
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516. Devotion of Time
"If the employment of life were crowded into the time which it
really occupied, perhaps a few weeks, days, or hours would be
sufficient for its accomplishment, so far as the mind was engaged
in the performance. For such is the inequality of our corporeal
to our intellectual faculties, that we contrive in minutes what
we execute in years, and the soul often stands an idle spectator
of the labour of the hands and expedition of the feet."
Johnson: Rambler #8 (April 14, 1750)
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