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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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 lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
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The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
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Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
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To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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