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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Life protracted is protracted woe.
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In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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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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When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
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As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
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You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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