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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I will be conquered I will not capitulate.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
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Truth allows no choice.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
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Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
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As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
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A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.
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There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
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A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
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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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There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.
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To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
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Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
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