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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
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It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
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Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
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Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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