To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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