Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor.
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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.Samuel Johnson
PATRON One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet.
Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
To do nothing is in every man's power.
Samuel Johnson
I cannot forbear to wish, that this commotion (in the colonies) may end without bloodshed, and that the rebels may be subdued by terror rather than by violence and, therefore, recommend such a force as may take away, not only the power, but the hope
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