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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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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
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A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
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Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
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All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
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Security will produce danger.
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That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
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Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
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