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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
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The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
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