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Date: Tuesday, January 8, 1751
"It is necessary to that perfection of which our present state is capable, that the mind and body should both be kept in action; that neither the faculties of the one nor of the other be suffered to grow lax or torpid for want of use; that neither health be purchased by voluntary submission to ig...
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Date: Tuesday, January 8, 1751
"It is certain that any wild wish or vain imagination never takes such firm possession of the mind, as when it is found empty and unoccupied."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, January 8, 1751
"The old peripatetick principle, that Nature abhors a vacuum, may be properly applied to the intellect, which will embrace any thing, however absurd or criminal, rather than be wholly without an object."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
