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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 dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
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To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
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All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
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I will take no more physick, not even my opiates for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
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Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
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