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Samuel Johnson Quotes

Samuel Johnson quotes about hope

English Author, Critic September 18, 1709 – December 13, 1784

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness. Samuel Johnson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to..."
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit. Samuel Johnson
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do..."
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of..."
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler"
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler Samuel Johnson

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