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Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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I will be conquered I will not capitulate.
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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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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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
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