Samuel Johnson Quote

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.


The Rambler.... (ed. 1767)


To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.