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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
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It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
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Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!
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That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
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