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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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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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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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Discord generally operates in little things it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife every human being in such places is a spy.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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