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Health Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson describes health as a full picture—physical, mental, and social—rather than just the lack of disease. He ties cheerfulness and wisdom to good health and warns that vanity drains both money and well‑being. The writer also notes that caring for the eye needs a horizon, a metaphor for broader perspective.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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The best part of health is fine disposition

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The health of the eye demands a horizon.

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The first wealth is health.

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Thought is the seed of action.

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Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in…

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The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the…

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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the…

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of…

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides…

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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it…

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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he…

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Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is…

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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be…

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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends,…

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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency…

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When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I…

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

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man

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The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

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Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

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To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch...

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmityv

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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are…

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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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