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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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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
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Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.
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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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Virtue is too often merely local.
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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
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