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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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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
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Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
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If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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The mind is refrigerated by interruption the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject the reader is weary, he suspects not why and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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