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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
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The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
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Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
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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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All industry must be excited by hope.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
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Life admits not of delays when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
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We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
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We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
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