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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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Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
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There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
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It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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