Unnumbered suppliants crowd Preferment's gate
Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great;
Delusive Fortune hears th' incessant call,
They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
Samuel JohnsonTag: happiness
And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and innovation, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Samuel JohnsonDo not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.
Samuel JohnsonOf the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.
Samuel Johnsona hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
Samuel JohnsonTag: autobiography tea teaism kettle
В древността най-разпространеното правило е било: познай себе си. Сега казват: опознай своя съсед и всичките му дела.
Samuel JohnsonAs soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel JohnsonNo man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel JohnsonThose who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
Samuel JohnsonTag: pain understanding
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