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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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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.
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I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
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Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
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Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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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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The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
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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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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
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Hunger is never delicate they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
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No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
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