QUOTES by Samuel Johnson
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"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning."
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"I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain."
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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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"The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion."
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"There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence"
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"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."
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"He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel."
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"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea."
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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company."
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"No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring."
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"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."
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"His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises."
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"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking."
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"There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are"
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"No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?"
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"Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well."
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"Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic."
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"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse."
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"I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives 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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"He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions."
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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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"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last"
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"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
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"The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear"
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"I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed."
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"Smoking. . . is a shocking thing, blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes and noses, and having the same thing done to us."
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"Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements."
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"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
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"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
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"What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."
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"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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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
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"Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging."
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"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions"
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"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence"
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