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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.

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 Johnson
Religious, Health, Exercise
"The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772".

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

Samuel Johnson
Exercise, Mind, Use
Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell.

1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day's rest. 5. Get a smart seasickness if you can. 6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy. This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.

Samuel Johnson
Smart, Exercise, Journey
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi (1952). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782”

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Samuel Johnson
Fitness, Exercise, Labor

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Samuel Johnson
Exercise, Cake, Tea Drinking
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.653

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.

Samuel Johnson
Happiness, Art, Exercise
"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by James Boswell, 1791.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

Samuel Johnson
Happiness, Art, Exercise
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.416

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

Samuel Johnson
Grief, Exercise, Useless
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters”, p.311

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

Samuel Johnson
Exercise, Men, May

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Samuel Johnson
Disappointment, Exercise, Design
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.217

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

Samuel Johnson
Fate, Exercise, Men
The Rambler, No 85, January 8, 1751.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.

Samuel Johnson
Exercise, Men, Hands
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.373

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Samuel Johnson
Exercise, Understanding, Religion
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.105

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Samuel Johnson
Exercise, Ideas, Soul
Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.210

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