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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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To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
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Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
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He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.
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As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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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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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
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There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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