Health
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"The first wealth is health."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher)
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"Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wishes on the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand."
(Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century), U.S. child psychoanalyst)
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"I find that with me low spirits and feeble health come and go together. The last two or three months I have had frequent attacks of the blues. They generally are upon me or within me when I am somewhat out of order in bowels, throat, or head."
(Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), U.S. president)
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"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."
(Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist)
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"Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour."
(Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president)
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"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."
(John Locke (1632-1704), British philosopher)
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"A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy."
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher)
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"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
(Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), British philosopher)
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"Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature - if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you-know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse."
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist)
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"He had had much experience of physicians, and said, "the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.""
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author)
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