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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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The future is bought with the present.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood it is the crime of cowards.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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