Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.Samuel Johnson
GOLDSMITH. Here's such a stir about a fellow that has written one book, and I have written many. JOHNSON. Ah, Doctor, there go two-and-forty sixpences you know to one guinea.
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A successful author is equally in danger of diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
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All travel has its advantages. If the traveler visits Better countries, he may learn to improve his own and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy his own.
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How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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