Avenues Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avenues Bashfulness Grief May Pleasure Regret Remorse Sometimes Sorrow
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness. — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“While guilt over sinfulness can often lead to repentance, shame leads to indifference, intolerance, lack of vulnerability, and lack of intimacy with others as… — Tyler Braun Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I don't look at money as success. I look at it as an avenue to freedom. — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.... — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting… — Nancy Johnson Copy Share Image
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom… — Jules Romains Copy Share Image