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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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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
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Riches seldom make their owners rich.
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
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Wealth is nothing in itself it is not useful but when it departs from us.
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