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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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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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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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In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
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Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
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Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
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Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
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We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
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All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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