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 JOHNSONIt very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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