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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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The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.
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Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
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