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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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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.
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Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
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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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Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
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None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
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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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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
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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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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous and where among her followers will she find a husband?
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To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.
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Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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