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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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But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
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Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
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Life admits not of delays when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
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Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
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