A Quote by Samuel Johnson

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

Samuel Johnson

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Considerable Hope Part Pleasures

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

William Benton Clulow

When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited.

Zig Ziglar

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Samuel Johnson

I received a considerable personal response to my part in 'Roots.'

Lorne Greene

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

Edward Zigler

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

Jane Austen

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

Henry James

I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.

Carolyn See

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

Andrew Solomon

He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

Marilynne Robinson

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

Gerald Durrell

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

Aldous Huxley

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

Khalil Gibran

Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans.