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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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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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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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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood it is the crime of cowards.
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
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The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.
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To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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