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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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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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The violence of war admits no distinction the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
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We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
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To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
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Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
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