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Samuel Johnson

(1709-1784, British author)

Perspective
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
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Calamity
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
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Misers and Miseries
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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Retirement
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Freedom of Speech
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Army and Navy
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Belief
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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Dictionary
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
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Bragging
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
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Quotation
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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Labor
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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Trust
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Exercise
Exercise is labor without weariness.
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Focus
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
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Fear
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize
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Anticipation
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Fish and Fishing
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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Happiness
For who is pleased with himself.
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Friends and Friendship
Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
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Friends and Friendship
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
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Preachers and Preaching
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
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Historians and History
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
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Perseverance
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
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Quotation
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
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Risks
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Life and Living
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
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Ambition
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Suspicion
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and He that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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Fear
0, how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base, uncomely things it makes men do.
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Praises and Praising
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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Welfare
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Abuse
A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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Judges and Judgment
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
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Wives
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Identity
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Books and Reading
A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Food and Eating
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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Preachers and Preaching
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
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Respect
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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Letters
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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Vows
A vow is a snare for sin.
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Piety
A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
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Adversity
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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Public Opinion
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
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Freedom
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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Wonder
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
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Imitation
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Friends and Friendship
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
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Friends and Friendship
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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