Samuel Johnson Quote

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed —
Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.


London: A Poem (1738), lines 176–177

Johnson, London


This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed — Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed — Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed — Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed — Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.