Will Johnson
Will Johnson
wise gratitude children
I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.
merit fondness
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
misery cures radical
The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.
sorrow employment safe
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
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.