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 wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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