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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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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson

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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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Im really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that Ive had with the fans has been fantastic. – Frank Lampard

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the countrys cause. – Abraham Lincoln

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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. – Samuel Smiles

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