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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.
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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife every human being in such places is a spy.
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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
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Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
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Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.
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We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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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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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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