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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Quote by Winston Churchill about old, olderness, world

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about curiosity, knowledge

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about drinking

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about sadness

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about sadness, contentment

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about state, army, wealth

Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

Quote by Albert Einstein about wisdom