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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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Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was to chosen race That unstinted tide confined Thine is every time and place, Fountain sweet of heart and mind!
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
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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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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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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
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As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
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Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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