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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.
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There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.
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Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
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Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
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He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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