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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
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Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
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Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
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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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Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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