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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 the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
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Social sorrow loses half its pain.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?
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A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
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Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.
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The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
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