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Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
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Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned
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Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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