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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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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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Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
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Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
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The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
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