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Hope is necessary in every condition.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
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Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
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By writing, you learn to write.
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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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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Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.
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There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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Security will produce danger.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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