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Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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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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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
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Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur so many immediate evils are
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To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
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...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
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