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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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 read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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The process is the reality.
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He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
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Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
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Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
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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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Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
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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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men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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