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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
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Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
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The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.
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That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.
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Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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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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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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