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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The future is purchased by the present.
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There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.
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Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.
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men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
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As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
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So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
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To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
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Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
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