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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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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.
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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
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When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.
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