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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
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He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
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The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
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Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.
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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.
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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.
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