"We love to expect, and when expectation is……" — Samuel Johnson
"We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting."
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Samuel Johnson
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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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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing…
— Theodor Adorno
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My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we…
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I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are…
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I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.
— Jeff Bridges
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Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they…
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.
— Bill Bryson
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the…
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