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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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 live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
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Self-love is a busy prompter.
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
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No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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I will take no more physick, not even my opiates for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
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