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Virtue is too often merely local.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.
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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
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Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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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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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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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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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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Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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