Will Johnson
Will Johnson
example statistics
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
money men affluence
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
food feds ill
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
life art novelty
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
sleep animal vegetables
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.
sorrow together would-be
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
deceit chill benevolence
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
ease deceit guilty
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
vanity evil degradation
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.
hands left-hand prosperity
Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.
lost-friendship decay disease
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
lost-friendship and-love esteem
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
exercise ideas soul
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
friendship names innocent
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.