"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

18 September 2022

Happy Birthday, Johnson

Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, 1756 

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. 

 Dr. Samuel Johnson, born on this day in 1709

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