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«Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.»
«Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
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Reflection
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fragrance, rank, revelry, wholesome
«There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
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namely, objection, religious doctrine, wholesome, Writings
«Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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alliance, attends, civil law, Civil society, commercial, composed, composes, deserving, endeavors, evident, injuries, intercourse, mutually, nominally, that name, The Animal, whence, wholesome
«Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
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Liberty
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in proportion to, wholesome
«One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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healthy, roam, roamed, roaming, roams, wholesome
«The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force the thing becomes a pressure, and produces def»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Art
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affects, artistic, perspire, perspiring, temperament, vitality, wholesome
«One 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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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aimless, ballast, out-of-door, out of doors, relaxation, sentiment, wholesome
«Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.»
«Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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abroad, bird of, celebrated, dawning, fairy, nights, planets, saviour, The Bird, wherein, wholesome
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