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Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
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In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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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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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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