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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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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
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Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
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Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant whose kettle has scarcely time to cool who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
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The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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