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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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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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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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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children and those who marry early, with their partners.
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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
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We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge Rome of elegance
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Every other enjoyment malice may destroy every other panegyric envy may withhold but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.
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