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Quote by Samuel Johnson
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. – Samuel Johnson

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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

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Future
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Samuel Johnson
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Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. – Samuel Johnson

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That which is escaped now is pain to come. – Proverb

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To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. – Bodenstedt

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There are no gains without pains. – Benjamin Franklin

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Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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