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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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There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
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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 applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.
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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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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
Samuel Johnson
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
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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.
Samuel Johnson
It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
Samuel Johnson
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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