Quote by Samuel Johnson
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – 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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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. – Samuel Johnson

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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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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. – Samuel Johnson

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The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales. – Aesop

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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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