Will Johnson
Will Johnson
practice superstitions conviction
Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.
luxury rudeness spite
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
love-is self self-love
Self-love is a busy prompter.
yield may littles
It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.
forests
Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
scene comic produce
In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.
fabric injury poet
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
retirement solitude mind
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.
style mind benefits
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.
pleasure subordination governing
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.
troublesome
Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
failing
A fallible being will fail somewhere.
travel ancient modern
Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.
determined moments reviews
Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.