Will Johnson
Will Johnson
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.
life bears pills
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
nature men envy
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
patience vain duty
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
patience reign ill
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.