6 Quotes by Samuel Johnson about hope
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Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
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