Will Johnson
Will Johnson
anger passion men
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.
lying grief flower
In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.
hunger appetite delicate
Hunger is never delicate.
architecture
To build is to be robbed.
genius sparrows lucky
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
pride mind intellectual
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
chiefs policy avarice
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.
two distinguished thousand
Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.
sorrow may sometimes
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
personal-knowledge forever records
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
greatness men details
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.
writing mind biographies
The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.
and-love admiration judgment
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
differences enemy common
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.