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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
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I remember a passage in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
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To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
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Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was to chosen race That unstinted tide confined Thine is every time and place, Fountain sweet of heart and mind!
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
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It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
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Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits the other recreates and revives them.
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
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Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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