Best Salutary Quotes
44 Salutary quotes by 37 unique authors
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The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power…
— Edward St Aubyn
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One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the…
— Eric Alterman
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Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little…
— Charles Darwin
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
— Guru Nanak
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Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the…
— Paul Auster
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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but…
— Gore Vidal
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But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health…
— Aldo Leopold
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It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the…
— Aldous Huxley
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
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It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days.…
— Mary Zimmerman
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His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard…
— Paul Valery
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Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say…
— Rick Perlstein
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For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the…
— Miroslav Volf
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I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to…
— Miroslav Volf
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Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the nation of the strings of the public purse is a…
— Thomas Jefferson
Who Wrote These Salutary Quotes
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