Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
Interpretation
Pride can blind us to our own flaws while making us overly critical of others.
This quote by Samuel Johnson suggests that pride is a negative trait that often leads individuals to see faults in others while failing to recognize their own imperfections. It emphasizes the tendency of people to project their shortcomings onto those around them, thus creating a cycle of judgment and self-deception fueled by an inflated sense of self-worth.
In practice
In a discussion about self-improvement, one might say, 'As Samuel Johnson wisely noted, pride can blind us to our own faults.'
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.
. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.
The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.
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