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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
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If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
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Suspicion is very often a useless pain.
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
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He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.
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How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!
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I will take no more physick, not even my opiates for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
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