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To tell your own secrets is ge...

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

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The rules that I shall propose...

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Everybody knows worse of himse...

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

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The poor and the busy have no ...

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

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Want of tenderness is want of ...

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

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Let observation with extensive...

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

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The best part of every author ...

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

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The man who is asked by an aut...

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

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I remember a passage in Goldsm...

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield,' which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: 'I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

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In my early years I read very ...

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

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The arguments for purity of li...

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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There is a certain race of men...

There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.

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In solitude we have our dreams...

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

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Every man, however hopeless hi...

Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.

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Shakespeare never had six line...

Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

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We are perpetually moralists, ...

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

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A fellow will hack half a year...

A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

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To make dictionaries is dull w...

To make dictionaries is dull work.

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Was there ever yet anything wr...

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

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In a man's letters his soul li...

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

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