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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
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 mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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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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To a poet nothing can be useless.
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Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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Life is but short no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy their real faults are immediately detected and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
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Truth has no gradations nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
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Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
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