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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
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.
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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
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Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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