What did Samuel Johnson mean by: Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness. Samuel Johnson Writer · England Copy
+ By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Determination, Self-discipline, Strength, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Pride, Self-deception, Vice, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating. Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Education, Importance, Reminder, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself. Author, June 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Expression, Identity, Self-reflection, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain. Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Desire, Qualifications, Reality, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Illusion, Knowledge, Reflection, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Negligence, Poverty, Wealth, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ It is commonly a weak man who marries for love. Read explanation Author, August 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Love, Marriage, Weakness, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too. Jean Craighead George
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France