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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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A mere literary man is a dull man a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
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Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
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Modern writers are the moons of literature they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
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There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.
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