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Quote by Samuel Johnson
[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick ca
[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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Fish, Fishing
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Samuel Johnson
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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

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Play/Games
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Samuel Johnson
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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Cruelty
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Samuel Johnson
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Mind
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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain

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Mind

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Mind

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. – Latin Proverb

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Mind

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. – Eric Hoffer

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Mind

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Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time. – Marianne Williamson

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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure. – Michael Malone

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Failure

Reason also is choice. – John Milton

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. – Quintilian

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