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Quote by Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Cruelty
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Samuel Johnson
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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. – Samuel Johnson

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Labor
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Samuel Johnson
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. – Samuel Johnson

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Letters (writing)
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Hope
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. – Matthew Arnold

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Hope

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life. – Tom Felton

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Hope

I think its realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: I despair. The worlds no good. Thats a perverse idealist. Its practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. Thats very realistic. – Studs Terkel

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Hope

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. – Albert Camus

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Hope

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O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you. – George Whitefield

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Trust

People intoxicate themselves with work so they wont see how they really are. – Aldous Huxley

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work

I believe that when youre in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner… or why bother? So in that sense Im an incurable romantic when it comes to men. – Cameron Diaz

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Well, when I was a kid and I watched Speed Racer, I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I dont know. – Emile Hirsch

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Morning