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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellec

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. – Samuel Johnson

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Sports :: Poker
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Samuel Johnson
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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 the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Exercise
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Samuel Johnson
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Play/Games
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The last act crowns the play. – John Ruskin

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Play/Games

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Play/Games

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. – Friedrich von Schiller

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Play/Games

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. – Eric Hoffer

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Play/Games

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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. – Robertson Davies

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I taught in a small teachers college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didnt. – David Eddings

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In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless…. In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. – Neville Cardus, Cardus on the Ashes, 1989

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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca

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