“Let him not spend time in regretting any mistake which he had made, but to set himself immediately and vigorously to repair it..” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“Let pain deserv’d without complaint be borne.” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“Things indifferent include riches, health, and reputation.” -Epictetus #stoic #stoicism #Epictetus

“All fear is in itself painful, and when it conduces not to safety, is painful without use.” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit.” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“It is improper to fear events which must happen, it is yet more evidently contrary to right reason to fear those which may never happen, and which, if they should come upon us, we cannot resist.” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“Death falls heavy upon him who is too much known to others, and too little to himself.” -Seneca #Stoic #Stoicism #Seneca

SUBLUNARY Belonging to this world as contrasted with a better or more spiritual one "There are a few conditions which do not entangle us with sublunary hopes and fears..." -Dr. Johnson

“There are to be some time for sober reflection between the life of a soldier and his death.” -Juan de Valdes

“Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohmson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“We purchase, by a thousand miseries, the privilege of repentance.” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“Virtue is not to be consulted when men are to raise their fortunes by the favor of the great.” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson

“If it be unhappy to have one patron, what is his misery who has many?” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“Timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinant and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable, has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“Men are designed for the succour and comfort of each other.” -Dr. Johnson #DrJohnson #SamuelJohnson #TheRambler

“That every man should regulate his actions by his own conscience, without any regard to the opinions of the rest of the world, is one of the first precepts of moral prudence.” -Dr. Johnson #SamuelJohnson #DrJohnson #TheRambler

“Set death before me; set pain, a prison, disgrace, doom, and you will know me.” -Epictetus #Stoic #Stoicism #Epictetus

“It is not death or pain to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.” -Epictetus #Stoic #Stoicism #Epictetus

“Where events are inevitable, meet them with courage, but otherwise with caution.” -Epictetus #Stoic #Stoicism #Epictetus

“Labour and care are rewarded with success, success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins that reputation which accuracy had raised.” -Dr. Johnson #samueljohnson #drjohnson #therambler