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Piety is the only proper and ...

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

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Irresolution and mutability a...

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The whole world is put in mot...

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

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It is the care of a very grea...

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

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Genius, that power which cons...

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

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No money is better spent than...

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

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Good-humor is a state between...

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

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No man is defeated without so...

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

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There may be community of mat...

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

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Gayety is to good-humor as pe...

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

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As all error is meanness, it ...

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

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Before dinner men meet with g...

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

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No man can have much kindness...

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

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The botanist looks upon the a...

The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.

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Once a coxcomb, always a coxc...

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

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Where necessity ends, desire ...

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

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Governors being accustomed to...

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

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Large offers and sturdy rejec...

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

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One of the most pernicious ef...

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

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By those who look close to th...

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

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