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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Occupation alone is happiness.
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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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Riches seldom make their owners rich.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.
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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.
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In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
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Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
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Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
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Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge Rome of elegance
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
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