William Samuel Johnson Quotes

• Whatever you have, spend less.

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• Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

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• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

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• It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

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• Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

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• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

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• He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

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• Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

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William Samuel Johnson (8)

Birth:	7th October, 1727
Death:	14th November, 1819
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Clergyman, Politician, Statesman

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