What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with dili… — Quoted

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“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”

Samuel Johnson · Hope

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Samuel Johnson

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Home

Samuel Johnson

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Great

Samuel Johnson

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Society

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Change