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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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We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
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Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.
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Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
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Foppery is never cured it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.
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Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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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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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.
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When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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