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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
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But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
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To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.
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Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
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