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Social sorrow loses half its pain.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy knowledge is not always present.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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Modern writers are the moons of literature they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
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That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
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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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Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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