Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
SAMUEL JOHNSONTo 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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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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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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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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