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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
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Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.
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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
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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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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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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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To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.
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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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When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
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