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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Lichfield
Staffordshire
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.
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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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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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