Johnson
Johnson
Johnson is a surname of English origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name John, literally meaning "son of John". The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek Ἰωάννης Iōannēs from Hebrew יוחנן Yohanan, meaning "Yahweh has favoured". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints...
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
architecture
To build is to be robbed.
chiefs policy avarice
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.
sorrow may sometimes
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
personal-knowledge forever records
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
writing mind biographies
The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.
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Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
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I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
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It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.
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Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.
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Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.
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Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.
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To buried merit rise the tardy bust.
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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.