Best Wholesome Sayings
205 Wholesome quotes by 165 unique authors
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In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we…
— Michael Faraday
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The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and…
— Herbert Croly
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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life,…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
— Walter Savage Landor
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None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look…
— Charlotte Mason
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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little…
— Edward Dowden
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In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and…
— John O'Donohue
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It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he…
— Archibald Rutledge
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The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially…
— Richard Louv
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Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.
— Herbert M. Shelton
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Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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In matters of dress we wish neither silk nor rags," President Hinckley said. "We seek for the clean look, call it a wholesome look, the…
— Daniel H. Ludlow
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of…
— Aung San
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By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.
— Shigeru Yoshida
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In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the whole…
— John Walford
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The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its…
— Epictetus
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The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.
— C.S. Lewis
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But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.
— Max Cannon
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Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land.…
— Michael Pollan
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