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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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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
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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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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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All industry must be excited by hope.
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
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