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Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?
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No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
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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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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
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The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
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