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In civilized society external ...

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

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In the condition of men, it fr...

In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

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He that applauds him who does ...

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

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Hunger is never delicate....

Hunger is never delicate.

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To build is to be robbed....

To build is to be robbed.

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Whatever withdraws us from the...

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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 Ionia.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

A successful author is equally...

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

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Those authors are to be read a...

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Genius now and then produces a...

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

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People may be taken in once, w...

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

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There is nothing more dreadful...

There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

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Avarice is a uniform and tract...

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

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It is surely very narrow polic...

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

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You despise a man for avarice;...

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

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Of a thousand shavers, two do ...

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

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Bashfulness may sometimes excl...

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

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History can be formed from per...

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

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The business of the biographer...

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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The parallel circumstances and...

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

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Admiration and love are like b...

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

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