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Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
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It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
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I will be conquered I will not capitulate.
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By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
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Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
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Riches seldom make their owners rich.
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Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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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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I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
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