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The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

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To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals

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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

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Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life

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