A. Johnson
A. Johnson
gratitude cheer people
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
music thinking noise
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
sloth ease laziness
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
retirement sorry hate
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
time mind dresses
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
fairness
Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
translators
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
useless poet
To a poet nothing can be useless.
doctrine censorship members
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
good-and-evil evidence sufficient
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
life motivational achievement
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
life motivational confidence
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
complaining usual pity
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
wise wisdom knowledge
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.