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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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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
Samuel Johnson
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
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The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Samuel Johnson
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
Samuel Johnson
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
Samuel Johnson
