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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
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Where there is emulation, there will be vanity where there is vanity, there will be folly.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
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Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
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