...stands for a large thought in Johnson's mind - of earthly life. "Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world," advised Imlac (p. 117), administering one of the little pushes he gives to the travelers whenever they...

...flux; something is hourly lost and something acquired . . . Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world." 9. 19. It is like the building of a mound . . .: the general meaning is clear enough, but my adaptation...

...Praxis Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux. ... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world. — Samuel Johnson, Rasselas Midway through Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age, Peter Shillingsburg...

...RaMeLu, also speaks of idleness as stagnation: "Do not suffer the current of life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world." 189 Idleness is figured as dissolution in, besides Johnson's diaries and prayers, his Sermon 14 and...

...counsels the distraught Nekayah against excessive mourning: 'Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion. Commit yourself again...current of the world. Pekuah will vanish by degrees.' We recall that Johnson was writing this to pay for his mother's funeral, so how to face bereavement...