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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
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There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
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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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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
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The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
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In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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Modern writers are the moons of literature they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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