A. Johnson
A. Johnson
gratitude ambition home
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
truth learning men
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
broken-heart soul sorrow
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
life-is-short desire
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
positive-thinking years sides
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
caring valuable
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
gratitude cheer people
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
fathers-day struggle son
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
good-life thinking parent
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
life men dying
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
being-yourself believe being-single
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
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.
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.