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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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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
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If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
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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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In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.
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The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.
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Pleasure itself is not a vice
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
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A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
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Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.
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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
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