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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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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
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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 mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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The vicious count their years virtuous, their acts.
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
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