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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom it is to be sure, good for nothing but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
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If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.
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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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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
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A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
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..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
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The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
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