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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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 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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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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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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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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