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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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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
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We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.
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Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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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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Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.
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Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
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Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
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Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
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Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
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