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If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.
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Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
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Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
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