Samuel Johnson Quotes
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He was a very good hater.
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I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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God bless you, my dear!
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lies.
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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
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To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
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EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
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Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.
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The first years of man must make provision for the last.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
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A very unclubable man.
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It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
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CLUB - An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.