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Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
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I will be conquered I will not capitulate.
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Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom it is to be sure, good for nothing but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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It is our first duty to serve society.
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By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
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All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
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Inquiries into the heart are not for man.
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Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.
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Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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