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Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.
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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury for, as I said before it can reach but a very few.
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Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
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Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.
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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
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I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.
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