~ Samuel Johnson Quotes ~

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Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords: but like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

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Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

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An Italian philosopher said that 'time was his estate'; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy the most extensive desires if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence to be overrun with noxious plants or laid out for show rather than for use.