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Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
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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The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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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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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
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Wealth is nothing in itself it is not useful but when it departs from us.
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