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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.
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The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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Misfortunes should always be expected.
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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
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To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
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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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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
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