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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
By Samuel Johnson
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
By Samuel Johnson
He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
By Samuel Johnson
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
By Samuel Johnson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
By Samuel Johnson
Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner
By Samuel Johnson
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
By Samuel Johnson
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
By Samuel Johnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
By Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
By Samuel Johnson
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
By Samuel Johnson
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labour of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
By Samuel Johnson
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
By Samuel Johnson
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
By Samuel Johnson
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
By Samuel Johnson
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
By Samuel Johnson
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
By Samuel Johnson
ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
By Samuel Johnson
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
By Samuel Johnson
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.
By Samuel Johnson