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Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
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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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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Applause abates diligence.
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Security will produce danger.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.
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It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
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Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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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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