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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 a poet nothing can be useless.
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When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
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There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.
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Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.
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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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If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
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People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.
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Misfortunes should always be expected.
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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.
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Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre
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The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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