Agree Quote by Samuel Johnson

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence…

— Samuel Johnson

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming,…

— Richard Le Gallienne

True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of…

— Russell Kirk

The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a…

— Samuel Johnson

Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so…

— Eliza Haywood

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good…

— John Stuart Mill

“Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still others create and manifest many things,…

— Stephen Richards

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Variety is precious when it expresses nature more richly by developing various aspects of it; but the variety that consists in producing cripples and…

— Antonin Sertillanges

That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything…

— Susan Sontag

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the…

— Johannes Kepler