"The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it."
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"I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain."
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"Health is the requisite after morality"
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"For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?"
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"Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health."
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"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured."
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"If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks."
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"Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness."
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"Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society."
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"Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness."
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"[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies."
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"The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing."
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"How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn."
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"Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows."
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"We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him]."
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"He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy."
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"We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy."
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"The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health."
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"Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not."
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"I received free health care."
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