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No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
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Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.
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Life admits not of delays when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
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As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
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To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
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Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
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