Samuel Johnson on Hope
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“The triumph of hope over experience.”
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.”
“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”
“Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.”