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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Inquiries into the heart are not for man.
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Life protracted is protracted woe.
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
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Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
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Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
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There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
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Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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