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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
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It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.
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He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
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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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In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.
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Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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