It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Interpretation
Laziness and excess result in a state of unrest and dissatisfaction.
In this quote, Samuel Johnson highlights the consequences of laziness and gluttony, suggesting that those who indulge in idleness and overindulgence will find themselves in a state of discomfort and unease. Rather than achieving true relaxation, their inactivity leads to restlessness and a lack of peace, emphasizing the irony that indulgence does not automatically lead to satisfaction or happiness.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage productivity and a balanced lifestyle.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.
If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.
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