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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.”

Thinking Hope Cheating

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“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.”

Hope Frustration Extinction

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.”

Mind Hope

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.”

Hope Schemes

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Hope is necessary in every condition.”

Hope Anticipation Conditions

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”

People Politics

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Tim Ferriss

Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster

“I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.”

Land Work

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.”

Life Humble Hope

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Voltaire

Philosopher, Writer

“Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.”

Should Virtue Hope

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.”

Wisdom Fear Hope

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Robert Browning

Poet, Playwright

“Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.”

Men Progress Hope

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Sophocles

Playwright, Philosopher

“Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.”

Men Hope Noble Man

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