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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
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The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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A fallible being will fail somewhere.
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A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.
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Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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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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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy their real faults are immediately detected and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
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Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected that which elevates must always surprise.
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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