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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enjoyment #equality #greatly #happiness #human

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#absolutely #him #how #man #measure

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#day #every #every day #i #i do

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #better #case #general #happy

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#danger #debts #escaped #every #great

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#hope #human #human mind #mind #natural

In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#am #around #athlete #because #breathe

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#anything #coach #could #except #gym

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#beautiful #church #equal #equal rights #feeling