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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
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There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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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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Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
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Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
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