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Triumph of hope

Samuel Johnson

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A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Boswell's Life of Johnson, entry for 1770

Was born on: 18.09.1709
About Author: British author, poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer

Natural for young men

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

The Ramber, May 14, 1751

Hanged in a fortnight

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Boswell's Life of Johnson, entry for 1777

The mind is never satisfied

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The Ramber, March 24, 1750

Praise everybody

He who praises everybody, praises nobody

Jonsoniana, The European Magazine and London Review, January 1785

Calamity of war

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

The Idler, November 11, 1758

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