Samuel Johnson Quote

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.


The Rambler; in Four Volumes (ed. 1763)


In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of...

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of...

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of...

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of...