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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
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Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
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I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
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Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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Round numbers are always false.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
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Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary but yet it is not easy to avoid.
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
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The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
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