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All industry must be excited by hope.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children and those who marry early, with their partners.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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All envy is proportionate to desire we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
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Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
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There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.
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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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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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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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