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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief hap

Hope itself is 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. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. – Samuel Johnson

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Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. – Don Quixote

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Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. – S.A. Sachs

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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. – William Wordsworth

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Im a private guy, and you dont want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You dont always pick the right path, but its there in your conscience. – Tim McGraw

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Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements? – Robert Brault, “Sparsely Sage, Mostly Rosemary and Thyme,” rbrault.blogspot.com

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I dont necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story thats most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. – Beverly Cleary

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway (Thanks, Schanna)

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