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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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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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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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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.
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Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.
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As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God whether God is just whether this life is the only state of existence.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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