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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Samuel Johnson

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Best Deserve Ignorance Insult Motivational Punishment
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Deep Hesitation Myself Sharp Silence Weapon Word Yourself
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Fools Himself Influence Power Worry
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Goodness Original Poet Writing Yourself
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Coward Defense Revenge
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Diligence Hope Learning
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Advice Need Welcome
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Goodness Measurement Treat True
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Associate Greatness Local Man Position
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Man Praise Rich Virtue Wealth Wisdom World
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Death Himself Live Man
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Retirement Sorry Talent Thinking World Yourself
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Care Hands Mad Man Ourselves Pity Room

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

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