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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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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
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Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
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Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden.
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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
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The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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