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To a poet nothing can be useless.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
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People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.
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We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
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I fly from pleasure, said the prince, because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.
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Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
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The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
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Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.
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As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
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