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That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied, because it includes both in its alterations of exhibition, and approaches nearer than either to the appearance of life, by sh..
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He was a very good hater.
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Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest
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This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed -- Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.
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Samuel Johnson |
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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Here closed in death th' attentive eyesThat saw the manners in the face.
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Samuel Johnson |
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He who praises everybody praises nobody.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Round numbers are always false.
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Samuel Johnson |
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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Samuel Johnson |
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
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Samuel Johnson |
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But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the boldFall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.
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Samuel Johnson |
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A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.
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Samuel Johnson |
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He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,And glides in modest innocence away.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.
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Samuel Johnson |
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Samuel Johnson |
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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CLUB -- An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
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LEXICOGRAPHER -- A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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OATS -- A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
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Samuel Johnson |
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us.
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Samuel Johnson |
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.
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Samuel Johnson |
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
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Samuel Johnson |
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He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
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Samuel Johnson |
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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