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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.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary but yet it is not easy to avoid.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
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To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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It is our first duty to serve society.
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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