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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar and many fold in their passage while they lie waiting for the gale.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
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Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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By writing, you learn to write.
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The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
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