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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
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Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
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Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.
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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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