This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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A case might be made for the potentiality superior humor of the religious person who has settled once and for all what things are of ultimate value, sacred and untouchable. For then nothing else in the world need be taken seriously.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs; jolted by every pebble in the road.
Vigorous health and its accompanying high spirits are larger elements of happiness than any other things whatever.
Hippocrates, fully known as Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos NULL
One may derive information from the regimen of persons in good health what things are proper; for if it appear that there is a great difference whether the diet be so and so, in other respects, but more especially in the changes, how can it be otherwise in diseases, and more especially in the acute? But it is well ascertained that even a faulty diet of food and drink steadily persevered in, is safer in the main as regards health than if one suddenly change to another.
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
These motions everywhere in nature must surely be the circulations of God. The flowing sail, the running stream, the waving tree, the roving wind – whence else their infinite health and freedom? I can see nothing so proper and holy as unrelaxed play and frolic in this bower God has built for us.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, aka Jean Paul Richter
Sleep, riches, and health - to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
The health of a community, is an almost unfailing index of its morals.
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Dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages; yet mixed with pity, violated not their bliss.
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us without.