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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to ple

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – 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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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. – Samuel Johnson

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things. – Jon Stewart

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. – English Proverb

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So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises. – Jan Brewer

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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. – Mahalia Jackson

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Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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