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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.
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There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
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When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
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We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
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A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
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Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.
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