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Self-love is a busy prompter.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Lichfield
Staffordshire
Dr Johnson
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
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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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Long customs are not easily broken he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.
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He that has too much to do will do something wrong.
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In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
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Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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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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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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