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William Samuel Johnson

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


— William Samuel Johnson


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To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.


— William Samuel Johnson


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


— William Samuel Johnson


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


— William Samuel Johnson


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


— William Samuel Johnson


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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.


— William Samuel Johnson


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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.


— William Samuel Johnson


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


— William Samuel Johnson


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Whatever you have, spend less.


— William Samuel Johnson


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Fearing the consequences of independence for both the colonies and the mother country Johnson sought to avoid extremism and to reach a compromise on the outstanding political differences between the protagonists. He lived in London from 1767 to 1771 serving as Connecticut's agent in its attempt to settle the colony's title to Indian lands. In general he favored extension of federal authority.

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