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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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To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.
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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
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Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
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Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
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Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
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A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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