Will Johnson
Will Johnson
friendship names innocent
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
friendship men should
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
life worry littles
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
life struggle men
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
life woe states
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
life humble thinking
We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.
work mind littles
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
life strong history
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
time men resolution
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
daughter son heaven
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
garden animal cows
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
church offensive merriment
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
sincerity calculating
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
perseverance art looks
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.