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Reason and truth will prevail at last
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress
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What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
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