Balanced Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Balanced Compensation Enjoyment Equity Justice Peculiar Providence Suffering
Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In the eyes of the restless and the longing, Providence often appears to be worse than inscrutable: an unreliable Omnipotence given to haphazard whimsies… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
“A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they suffer injustice… — Boethius Copy Share Image
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or desires. This… — Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi 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
There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection… — Terence Conran Copy Share Image
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire… — Jewel Copy Share Image
The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other… — Peter Orszag Copy Share Image
The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism. — Ovadia Yosef Copy Share Image
Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous with a… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I do try to watch it. I'm not saying you have to put yourself on a diet, because I hate the word "diet." But… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
