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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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.