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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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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 happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.
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There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
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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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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
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Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.
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All envy is proportionate to desire we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
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