Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann More Quotes by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann More Quotes From Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann solitude loneliness wish The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann solitude real joy Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann fit solitude Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann suicide may world Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann dew choices blow Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann mind time retirement The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann abuse degrees lust The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann relief mind may Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann remembrance funeral fame Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann wit wells listening Nobility should be elective, not hereditary. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann hereditary nobility should Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann contracts habit Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann our-lives energy action An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann imagination heart heaven The sluggard is a living insensible. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann insensible indolence Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann solitude perfect philosophy Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann space fire ideas When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann disappointment book ideas A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann names forever may Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann sin mind way
