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 JOHNSONFrom thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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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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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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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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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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