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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
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Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy their real faults are immediately detected and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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