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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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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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A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.
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Foppery is never cured it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.
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It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.
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Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy knowledge is not always present.
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We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
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