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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 authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species to remark general properties and large appearances.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom it is to be sure, good for nothing but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
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When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
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