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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children and those who marry early, with their partners.
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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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