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Security will produce danger.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.
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Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
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All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told and the adage is verified in your place and my favour but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.
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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
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When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
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The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
Samuel Johnson
It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
Samuel Johnson
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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