Will Johnson
Will Johnson
religion church dangerous
To be of no Church is dangerous.
secret credit scandal
As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.
secret guilt secrecy
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.
revenge coward defense
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
sorrow leisure sentimental
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
stupidity want proof
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
useless would-be conjecture
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
travel views watches
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.
influence argument failing
The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
ignorance men race
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
together lines may
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
intellectual perception matter
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
dull dictionary
To make dictionaries is dull work.
coffee headache steam
His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.