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No one ever became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
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Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.
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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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Self-love is a busy prompter.
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Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
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It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.
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Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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All theory is against free will all experience is for it.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
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