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Misfortunes should always be expected.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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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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Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
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An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.
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Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
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Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected that which elevates must always surprise.
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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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Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.
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A vow is a snare for sin
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Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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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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