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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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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.
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Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
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Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
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When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
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All theory is against free will all experience is for it.
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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
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You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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Truth has no gradations nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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