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A fallible being will fail somewhere.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.
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Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
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Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.
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There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
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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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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
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In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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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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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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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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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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It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.
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