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When offered wine, Samuel Johnson declined, explaining, “Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.”
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
— Samuel Johnson
Alexander the Great: ‘I am dying with the help of too many physicians.’
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
In the finest moments of his Shakespeare commentaries, Samuel Johnson rises from critic to sage: https://t.co/Yyb36C5Dh9
As a person “thinks within himself, so he is” (Prov. 23:7).
John MacArthur Jr. • Anxious for Nothing: God's Cure for the Cares of Your Soul (John Macarthur Study)
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."
― Charles MacKay
A line from the British literary giant Samuel Johnson floated through my mind.