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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Health | Keywords: basis, moral duty, preserve, social
«Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts»
«Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Pain
«The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public»
«Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Friendship | Keywords: bond, spirits, union
«Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Confidence, Self-esteem | Keywords: aged, bosom
«There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Sorrow, Wisdom | Keywords: hopeless
«The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.»
«Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Music, Vice | Keywords: sensual, vice
«There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.»

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