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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
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He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.
Samuel Johnson
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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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
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Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
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There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.
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To build is to be robbed.
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