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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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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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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was to chosen race That unstinted tide confined Thine is every time and place, Fountain sweet of heart and mind!
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
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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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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
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