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In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned
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Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
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A mere literary man is a dull man a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
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