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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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 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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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
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The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
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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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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
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Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood it is the crime of cowards.
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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
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They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.
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I will be conquered I will not capitulate.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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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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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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