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Fitness Quotes by Samuel Johnson

17 Fitness quotes by Samuel Johnson

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Johnson’s 17 lines blend his characteristic moral seriousness with observations on health. They suggest that physical upkeep is not merely a habit but a reflection of personal virtue, offering a measured, thought‑provoking angle on staying active.

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Exercise is labor without weariness.

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Clear your mind of cant.

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

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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is…

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

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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use…

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“Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use…

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Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in…

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I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to…

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The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we…

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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard,…

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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can…

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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to…

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

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Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts…

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The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact…

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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.…

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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

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Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms…

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You can never be wise unless you love reading.

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If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise

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All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…

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The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.

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Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

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“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

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“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then…

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Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt…

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That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem

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The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

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