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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 faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century
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As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
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Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Inquiries into the heart are not for man.
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The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
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In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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