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The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
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Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.
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We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
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Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous and where among her followers will she find a husband?
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
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