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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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 faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
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If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
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Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.
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I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him but angry he is, no doubt and he is loath to be angry at himself.
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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
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A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
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To be of no Church is dangerous.
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Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
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Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
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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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