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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.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.
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Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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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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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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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
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