Samuel Johnson Quotes about Health

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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".

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Samuel Johnson

Pain, Health, Men

Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.100

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

Samuel Johnson

Running, Health, Broken

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.270