The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in rem… - Samuel Johnson
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The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [7 September O.S.] – 13 December 1784) was a British author, linguist and lexicographer. He is often referred to as simply Dr. Johnson in the history of literature and is regarded as the greatest man of letters in English history.
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Great Moralist
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude. But the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
