... so 'Read Him'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
This morning I read Johnson's Rambler essay on stoicism, and was taken with this: "The great remedy which heaven has put in our hands is patience, by which, though we cannot lessen the torments of the body, we can in a great measure preserve the peace of the mind, and shall suffer only the natural and genuine force of the evil, without heightening its acrimony or prolonging its effects." Patience is the only virtue I have managed to acquire in my life; it certainly didn't come naturally.
Johnson goes on to say that "there is indeed nothing more unsuitable to the nature of man in any calamity than rage and turbulence." Those who indulge in rage and turbulence on the internet ought to ponder this, especially since so much of their acrimony is inspired by nothing at all calamitous.
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