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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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 complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.
Samuel Johnson
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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It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
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When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
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No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Whatever you have spend less.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
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None are happy but by anticipation of change.
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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