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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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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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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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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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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Wealth is nothing in itself it is not useful but when it departs from us.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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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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Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
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