A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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