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All theory is against free will all experience is for it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
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Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
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