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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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. – Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. – Tom Bodett

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We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end. – William Hague

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We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right. – Malcolm Turnbull

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As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope. – Annette Funicello

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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. – Walter Savage Landor

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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you cant move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. – Robert Frost

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