Samuel Johnson Quotes About Abstinence

• Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exercise, Cake, Tea Drinking

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.653

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Food, Cooking

  In William Roberts (ed.) 'Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More' (1834) vol. 1, p. 251

• To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Virtue, Abstinence

  "The Idler: With Additional Essays".

• By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Add, Vigor, Done

  Samuel Johnson (1799). “THE IDLER. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. WITH ADDITIONAL ESSAYS. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings OF THE AUTHOR”

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