What did Samuel Johnson mean by: Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. - Samuel Johnson Writer · England Copy
+ Each change of many-colour’d life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin’d new. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Johnson, Change, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Johnson, Patience, Vain, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last. Feraz Zeid, September 26, 2023December 24, 2023, Samuel Johnson, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ The joy of life is variety. Feraz Zeid, June 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Samuel Johnson, Joy, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Johnson, Games, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Johnson, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. Feraz Zeid, October 24, 2023December 26, 2023, Samuel Johnson, Art, Poetry, Uniting, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Johnson, Self, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Love’s pleasure lasts but a moment; love’s sorrow lasts all through life. - Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Poet · France
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. - Frida Kahlo Painter · Mexico
And if there’s love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. - Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then… Well, then I woke up. - Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
