"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless…" — Samuel Johnson
"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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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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More Hopeless Quotes
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one of 656 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
— Charles Babbage
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I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
— John Banville
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By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal,…
— Glenn Beck
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
— Halle Berry
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I…
— Theodore Bikel
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Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on…
— Tony Blair
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
— Orlando Bloom
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My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few…
— Richard Branson
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would…
— Albert Camus
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
— Charles L. Allen
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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