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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
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Truth allows no choice.
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He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
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How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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