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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood it is the crime of cowards.
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
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Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
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To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
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Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
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An exotic and irrational entertainment.
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There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.
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Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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