Wonder

Infinite knowledge can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.-Lives of the Poets. Yalden.

Happiness of

No man can be happy in total idleness; Work and it is well when nature or fortune finds employment for those who would not have known how to procure it otherwise.—Adventurer, No. 111.

Work for its own sake

Whatever busies the mind without corrupting it, has at least this use, that it reserves the day from idleness, and he that is never idle will not often be vicious.-Rambler, No. 177.

To know the world is necessary, since we The World were born for the help of one another; and to know it early is convenient, if it be only that we may learn early to despise it.

Mingling with

If the world be worth winning, let us enthe World joy it; but if it is to be despised, let us despise it by conviction; but the world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better. Company is in itself better than servitude and pleasure better than indolence. He must mingle with the world that desires to be useful.-Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 115.

Respect for the Of things that terminate in human life, the World world is the proper judge; to despise its sentence if it were possible is not just; and if it were just is not possible.-Lives of the Poets. Pope.

Small Worries

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted by fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.-Rambler, No. 112.

The greatest writers have written for Great Writers bread-Homer, Shakspeare, Dryden, Pope, Sir John Hawkins.-Life. Page 268.

Modern Writers

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.-Life. April 29, 1778.

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