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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
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men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
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Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.
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As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
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As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.
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Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
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