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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The mind is refrigerated by interruption the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject the reader is weary, he suspects not why and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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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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What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.
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