We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.


The Beauties of Johnson (ed. 1782)

Samuel Johnson Quotes

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he...

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he...

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he...

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he...