Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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The triumph of hope over experience

The triumph of hope over experience

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much...

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much...

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward...

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward...

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise,...

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise,...

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his...

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his...

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what...

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what...

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that...

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that...

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to...

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be...

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be...

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be...

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be...

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the...

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the...

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they...

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they...