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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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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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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
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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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The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.
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You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
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Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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A mere literary man is a dull man a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
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