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Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
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The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury for, as I said before it can reach but a very few.
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That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
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The first step to greatness is to be honest.
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All envy is proportionate to desire we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
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I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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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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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
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