"Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss,……" — Samuel Johnson
"Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; forit supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I…
— Christian Bale
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
— Joseph Addison
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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