"Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance……" — Samuel Johnson

"Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult."

— Samuel Johnson

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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Your aspirations are your possibilities.
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — Saint Augustine
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather… — Samuel Butler
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I… — Giacomo Casanova
Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. — Kurt Angle
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence… — Robert E. Lee
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker… — Clement of Alexandria
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard
When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining… — Clive James
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. — Robert Herrick
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion… — James Madison

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