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.
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.
All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.
Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it
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