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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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Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

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Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

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To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

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