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To build is to be robbed.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
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As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
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What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.
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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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Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
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The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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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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