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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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A fallible being will fail somewhere.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
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It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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