Famous Quotes | Condemned to Hope’s delusive...

Condemned to Hope’s delusive mine,
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away. - Samuel Johnson
Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British writer. On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic (l. 1–4). . . The Complete English Poems [Samuel Johnson]. J. D. Fleeman, ed. (1971) Penguin Books.

Categories: Age And Aging, Writer

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