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No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.
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Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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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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The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
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