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The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
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Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
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We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
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