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None are happy but by anticipation of change.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.
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The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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