Every man is of importance to himself.
Interpretation
Each individual holds intrinsic value and significance in their own life.
This quote by Samuel Johnson emphasizes the idea that every person plays a crucial role in their own narrative and experiences. It suggests that one's sense of self-importance and value is paramount, encouraging individuals to recognize their own worth and impact, both on themselves and in the broader context of society.
In practice
A motivational speech about self-acceptance and personal value.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!
Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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