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James Boswell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1740
Born: October 18
Died: 1795
Died: May 19
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In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.
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Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.
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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
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My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
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It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it but all belief is for it.
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We must take our friends as they are.
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A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.
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Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.
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If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.
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I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, He's your son, and God made him. He answered very harshly, If my sons are idiots, can I help it?
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I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
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[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.
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In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
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Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
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My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.
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But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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What a curious creature is man with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.
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Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
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