Will Johnson
Will Johnson
being-yourself believe being-single
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
music thinking noise
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
sloth ease laziness
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
perseverance years space
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
retirement sorry hate
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
wine evil giving
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
climate-change deviation
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
success portraits persons
Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
travel reality imagination
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
success pleasure difficulty
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
imagination expectations arrogance
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.
morning food years
I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
musical sensual vices
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
curiosity mind degrees
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.