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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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There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.
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In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
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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.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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By writing, you learn to write.
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
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Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.
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