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When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.
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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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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.
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It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
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Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
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To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.
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