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The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
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Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.
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Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife every human being in such places is a spy.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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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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Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
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In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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