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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised.
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Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
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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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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
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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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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
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To be of no Church is dangerous.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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