Quote: To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: Language is the pedigree of nations. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: He that never thinks can never be wise. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: Language is the dress of thought. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. [Johnson Johnson]
Quote: There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart. [Johnson Johnson]