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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected that which elevates must always surprise.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
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Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
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So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
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Life protracted is protracted woe.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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