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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.
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We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
Samuel Johnson
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
Samuel Johnson
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
Samuel Johnson
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
Samuel Johnson
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
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Foppery is never cured it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Samuel Johnson
In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised.
Samuel Johnson
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
Samuel Johnson
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
Samuel Johnson
