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 JOHNSONLove is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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