Samuel Johnson
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Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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