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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.
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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
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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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What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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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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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
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Applause abates diligence.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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