Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“there are lower degrees of constancy necessary to common virtue”
- Source
- The Idler
- Date
- 1758–1760
Meaning of “there are lower degrees of constancy necessary to…”
Johnson distinguishes heroic steadfastness from the smaller, repeated forms of constancy needed for ordinary moral life.
Where does it come from?
The Idler, No. 11; this paper is not among the numbers Johnson’s own advertisement excluded from his authorship.
