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If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced if of ill-fortune, to be pitied and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
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I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
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Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
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