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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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Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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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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I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.
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All industry must be excited by hope.
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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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Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant whose kettle has scarcely time to cool who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
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The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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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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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
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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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Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
Samuel Johnson
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
Samuel Johnson
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.
Samuel Johnson
Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy knowledge is not always present.
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