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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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To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
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As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
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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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A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
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We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
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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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Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
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