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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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I remember a passage in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
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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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Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
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In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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