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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
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He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.
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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
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Security will produce danger.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
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