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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.
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Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
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An exotic and irrational entertainment.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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