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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
The Idler (1758)
I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
[T]hey who complain, in peace, of the insolence of the populace, must remember, that their insolence in peace is bravery in war.
The Bravery of the English Common Soldiers (1760)
Then with no fiery throbbing pain,
No cold gradations of decay,
Death broke at once the vital chain,
And freed his soul the nearest way.