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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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More quotes by Samuel Johnson
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
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It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?
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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
Samuel Johnson
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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