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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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If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur so many immediate evils are
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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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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
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He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Virtue is too often merely local.
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
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The future is bought with the present.
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