Samuel Johnson's Quote - Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest bl

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest bl

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. – Samuel Johnson

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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. – Samuel Johnson

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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – William Cowper

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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. – Anton Chekhov

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It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. – Elsie de Wolfe

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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. – John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873

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