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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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Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy their real faults are immediately detected and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
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Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
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The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
Samuel Johnson
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
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Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury for, as I said before it can reach but a very few.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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