Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" But this censure will be mitigated when it is seriously considered that money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and that the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius - Page 118
by Samuel Johnson - 1810
Full view - About this book

The Gospel in All Lands

1897 - 606 pages
...hoM»r life. I think it was Johnson who wrote, " Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use." BEGINNING OF THE SOUTHERN METHODIST MISSIONS IN CHINA. [Seeing the notice in a Southern paper that...
Full view - About this book

Two Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts: A Storehouse of Memorable ...

1897 - 308 pages
...Footprints on the sands of time. — Longfellow. Money and Time are the heaviest burdens ot life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. — Johnson. The flood of time is rolling on, We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide...
Full view - About this book

Proverbial Wisdom: Comprising a Collection of Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical ...

1897 - 176 pages
...men altered by a change in their condition ! 19. Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. 20. It is not sinful to be poor, but to be dishonest; neither is it sinful to be rich, but to be sordid....
Full view - About this book

Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences, of Interest to ...

Abram N. Coleman - 1903 - 310 pages
...whose expenses exceed his income. La Bruyere. 42. Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. Johnson. 43. Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. Emerson. 44. A wealthy man who obtains...
Full view - About this book

The Mother's Legacy of Mother Love, Bright Hopes and Cherished Memories

D. H. Wever - 1908 - 656 pages
...has never, never been proven to be misplaced. MONEY and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. LIVING IN HEARTS. '"PO live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. All •^ we have willed, or dreamed...
Full view - About this book

A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 774 pages
...largest slave-holder in the world. —F. Sounder». Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. — Johnson. Oh, what a world of vile ill-favored faults looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year...
Full view - About this book

The Speaker's Garland, Volume 5

P. Garrett - 1910 - 872 pages
...be purer and stronger thereby. Owen Meredith. Money and Time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either Uian they know how to use. Johimoii. What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique...
Full view - About this book

Johnson the Essayist, His Opinions on Men, Morals and Manners: A Study

Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...be talking." & Life's Heaviest Burdens. — " Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use." 6 1 Adventurer, No. 120. » Ibid., No. 137. » Idler, No. 3. « Ibid., No. 14. • Ibid. • Ibid.,...
Full view - About this book

A Treasury of English Aphorisms

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pages
...but little danger. Dr. Johnson, B, I, 347. MONEY and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. Ibid., Idler, No. 30. IDLENESS PERHAPS man is the only being that can properly be called idle. Dr....
Full view - About this book

Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...accommodate the body nor improve the mind; and of which no other effect can be imagined, than that they are the occasions of spending money, and consuming time....seriously considered, that money and time are the heaviest burthens of life, and that the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF