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 JOHNSONI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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