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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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 enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.
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Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
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A fallible being will fail somewhere.
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
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It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.
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You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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