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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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 mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children and those who marry early, with their partners.
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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Hunger is never delicate they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
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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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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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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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