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Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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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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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.
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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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