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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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To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
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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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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
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The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
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Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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