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Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood it is the crime of cowards.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
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Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
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There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
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Social sorrow loses half its pain.
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