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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 man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
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I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.
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