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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Modern writers are the moons of literature they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.
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Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
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