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Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.
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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 main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.
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