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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
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None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
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Suspicion is very often a useless pain.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
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How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!
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Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
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A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.
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When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge Rome of elegance
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.
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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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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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