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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood it is the crime of cowards.
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A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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