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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
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Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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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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Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.
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We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
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The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.
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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
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