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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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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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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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You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
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That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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The first step to greatness is to be honest.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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