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...
opinion reason offended
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
pain suffering evanescence
We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
prejudice facts opinion
Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
theory inconvenience
He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.
life-is thoughts-of-death whole
The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
humility pride sometimes
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
choices liberty littles
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
together faults lines
Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.
useless exception
No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.
imagination existence
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
pain lying mean
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.
translations
Poetry cannot be translation
pain believe men
It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.
evil worst
The worst evils are those that never arrive.