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The process is the reality.
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 eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
Samuel Johnson
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
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A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Every other enjoyment malice may destroy every other panegyric envy may withhold but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
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We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
Samuel Johnson
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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The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.
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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
Samuel Johnson
Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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