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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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 drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.
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They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.
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He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
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By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?
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Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
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Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
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To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.
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Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
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