Will Johnson
Will Johnson
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.
time mind dresses
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
perseverance determination persistence
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
fairness
Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
cities squares wish
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.
translators
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
useless poet
To a poet nothing can be useless.
doctrine censorship members
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
wise grateful men
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.
good-and-evil evidence sufficient
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
life motivational achievement
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
travel world london
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
life motivational confidence
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
complaining usual pity
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.