This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever.
More Quotes from Samuel Johnson:
He who endeavors to please must appear to be pleased.Samuel Johnson
Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
Samuel Johnson
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel Johnson
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings
Samuel Johnson
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame.
Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Samuel Johnson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Belief & Faith Quotes, Morality QuotesBased on Keywords: overruling, predestination
We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.
Julie Taymor
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Debi Thomas
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou