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... his days with greater certainty if we were a little less empirical than we now are in respect to the efforts we lavish on his health . The next reflection it occurs to me to make is that man is sent into the world with a limited Health .
... his days with greater certainty if we were a little less empirical than we now are in respect to the efforts we lavish on his health . The next reflection it occurs to me to make is that man is sent into the world with a limited Health .
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... efforts they have made to prepare themselves for it . The like is true of muscular strength , of digestion and nutrition , and of every system and function of the body . Although every part of the organism grows by use , there is a ...
... efforts they have made to prepare themselves for it . The like is true of muscular strength , of digestion and nutrition , and of every system and function of the body . Although every part of the organism grows by use , there is a ...
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... effort to go to sleep— the effort keeps us awake . So the striving to live and be healthy wears out life and induces disease and death . BREATHING . THERE is no act or function of life which seems more important to existence than that ...
... effort to go to sleep— the effort keeps us awake . So the striving to live and be healthy wears out life and induces disease and death . BREATHING . THERE is no act or function of life which seems more important to existence than that ...
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... for their effort , in wrestling directly with the craving or the thirst , than against the inclination to drink- intoxicants particularly . Let the victim of this habit strive to lengthen the 42 How to Make the Best of Life .
... for their effort , in wrestling directly with the craving or the thirst , than against the inclination to drink- intoxicants particularly . Let the victim of this habit strive to lengthen the 42 How to Make the Best of Life .
Page 44
... effort of the will , rather than by humiliating that will by binding its action in the bonds of a " pledge . " We must treat our faculties as we treat our friends and expect others to treat us , namely , with re- spect and confidence ...
... effort of the will , rather than by humiliating that will by binding its action in the bonds of a " pledge . " We must treat our faculties as we treat our friends and expect others to treat us , namely , with re- spect and confidence ...
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