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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
Samuel Johnson
A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.
Samuel Johnson
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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It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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A vow is a snare for sin
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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
Samuel Johnson
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson
Truth has no gradations nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
Samuel Johnson
Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.
Samuel Johnson
