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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar and many fold in their passage while they lie waiting for the gale.
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
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