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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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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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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.
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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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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
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Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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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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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
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Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
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The vicious count their years virtuous, their acts.
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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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