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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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The time of such a man is always spent in forming schemes, which a change of wind hinders him from executing, his powers fume away in projects and in hope, and the day of action never arrives.
Samuel Johnsonverified·The Rambler No. 48, in The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2·September 1, 1750