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Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Samuel Johnson
I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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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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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
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What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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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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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
Truth allows no choice.
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Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
Samuel Johnson
