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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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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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Hunger is never delicate they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
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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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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
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Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
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The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
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What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
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