Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O’erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav’ring man, betray’d by vent’rous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treach’rous […]
Samuel Johnson Quote – “Great works are performed not by strength…”
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
Samuel Johnson Quote – “I deny the lawfulness of…”
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)