Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
Interpretation
Hope is essential for enduring difficult situations, as it provides comfort and strength.
Samuel Johnson's quote emphasizes the fundamental role of hope in human life, particularly in the face of adversity such as poverty, illness, and captivity. It suggests that hope acts as a vital source of comfort that allows individuals to endure hardships that might otherwise be unbearable, highlighting the resilience of the human spirit in challenging circumstances.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming challenges, one might say, 'As Samuel Johnson wisely stated, hope is necessary in every condition.'
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.
One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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