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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
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Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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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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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.
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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
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The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
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If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.
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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
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