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The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.
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His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.
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By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.
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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
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A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.
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Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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