The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet and Doctor Merryman.
—Jonathan Swift
Sunday, December 05, 2021
Post #3101
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Post #3064
When traveling abroad or taking a long journey, observe these rules -
1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise.
2. Do not think about frugality your health is worth more than it can cost.
3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue.
4. Take now and then a day's rest.
5. Get a smart sea sickness if you can.
6. Cast away all anxiety and keep your mind easy.
7. This last direction is the principal with an unquiet mind neither exercise nor diet nor physic can be of much use.
—Samuel Johnson
Monday, August 26, 2019
Post #2901
―Henry Ward Beecher
Friday, May 10, 2019
Post #2825
—Samuel Johnson
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Post #2542
—Sir William Temple
Friday, July 14, 2017
Post #2380
—Joseph Addison
Monday, July 03, 2017
Post #2371
Better a healthy beggar, than a sick king.
—German Proverb
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Post #1987
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Post #1971
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Post #1880
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Post #1843
— Samuel Johnson
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Post #1842
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Post #1799
—John Adams
Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Post #1724
—Jean Baptiste Massillon
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
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Post #1572
—Isaac Bickerstaffe
Friday, April 11, 2014
Post #1520
—Samuel Johnson
The Penalty of Leadership
In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. ¶Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. ¶In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. ¶The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. ¶When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. ¶If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. ¶Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. ¶Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. ¶Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. ¶Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. ¶The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. ¶The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. ¶There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. ¶And it all avails nothing. ¶If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. ¶Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. ¶That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. ¶That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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