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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
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The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species to remark general properties and large appearances.
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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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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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
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A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.
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A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
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