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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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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
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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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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
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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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Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
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Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
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Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
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They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.
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How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
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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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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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