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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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