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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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To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.
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Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy their real faults are immediately detected and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
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