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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A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
perseverance writing effort
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
fairness
Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
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Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
translators
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.
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In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.