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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
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Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected that which elevates must always surprise.
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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
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If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
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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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He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.
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