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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
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A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
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