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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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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
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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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No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
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The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
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Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
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No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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To build is to be robbed.
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When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
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The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
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