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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.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant whose kettle has scarcely time to cool who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
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Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.
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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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The whole power of cunning is privative to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.
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