Samuel Johnson | hope
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Samuel Johnson | hope
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.
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Samuel Johnson | home
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Samuel Johnson | happiness
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Samuel Johnson | happiness
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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Samuel Johnson | happiness
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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Samuel Johnson | happiness
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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Samuel Johnson | happiness
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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