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 future is purchased by the present.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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