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Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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Applause abates diligence.
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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
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