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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.
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He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.
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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him but angry he is, no doubt and he is loath to be angry at himself.
Samuel Johnson
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
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Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
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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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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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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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