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Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced if of ill-fortune, to be pitied and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.
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By writing, you learn to write.
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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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Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
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To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.
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He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
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I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
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Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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