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Life protracted is protracted woe.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.
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To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.
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We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant whose kettle has scarcely time to cool who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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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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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
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To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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