Will Johnson
Will Johnson
broken-heart heartbreak heartbroken
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
advice solitude sloth
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
horse food oats
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
inspirational compliments-you pay
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
said permanent uncertainty
Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
positive self-esteem opportunity
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
time joy woe
Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.
time toil vain
And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
time littles nine
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
time past color
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
time writing men
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
happiness evil doe
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
jealousy envy your-jealous
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
knowledge fire desire
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.