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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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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.
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The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
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This is my history like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
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Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
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Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected that which elevates must always surprise.
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