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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.
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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
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Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
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A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.
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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
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Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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Life is but short no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
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No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.
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Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.
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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
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