Will Johnson
Will Johnson
translations
Poetry cannot be translation
pain believe men
It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.
evil worst
The worst evils are those that never arrive.
views perfect understanding
A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to the fancy with greater dignity; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it.... That it may be complete, it is required to exhibit, independently of its references, a pleasing image; for a simile is said to be a short episode.
smart exercise journey
1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day's rest. 5. Get a smart seasickness if you can. 6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy. This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.
birthday humanity return
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
positive leadership wisdom
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
ambition home desire
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
secret action motive
Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
life wise ambition
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
funny life being-yourself
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
conversation impression remembered
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
travel jail sailing
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
rainy-day advice enemy
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.