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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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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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It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
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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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We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
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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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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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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Truth allows no choice.
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The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
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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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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
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A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.
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