A. Johnson
A. Johnson
crowds enjoy company
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
wise men wish
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
flames expectations sinking
We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
woe longevity
Life protracted is protracted woe.
vanity toilets endeavor
With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
money men yesterday
Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.
manners benevolence politeness
Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
pain disease moral
Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
struggle men water
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
cities extravagance poverty
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
responsibility men vices
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
littles feels sensibility
Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
scotland doe scotsmen
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
rise-above eminence superiority
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.