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Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
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All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told and the adage is verified in your place and my favour but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.
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A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
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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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He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
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To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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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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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
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