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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.
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It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.
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Life protracted is protracted woe.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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