A. Johnson
A. Johnson
perseverance years space
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
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.
wine evil giving
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
climate-change deviation
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
success portraits persons
Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
imagination expectations arrogance
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.
morning food years
I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
musical sensual vices
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
curiosity mind degrees
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
perseverance writing effort
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
time mind dresses
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
perseverance determination persistence
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
fairness
Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
cities squares wish
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.