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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
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 scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
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To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
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Discord generally operates in little things it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary but yet it is not easy to avoid.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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