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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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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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An exotic and irrational entertainment.
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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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Social sorrow loses half its pain.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden.
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