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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
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 maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
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All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
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By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
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To be of no Church is dangerous.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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Whatever you have spend less.
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Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.
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Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
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The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.
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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
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Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
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If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
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