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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
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Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur so many immediate evils are
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
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