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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
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I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.
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Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
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An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
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We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood it is the crime of cowards.
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There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
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