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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.
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When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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