Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband it…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard G. Callaway (2006). The conduct of life: a philosophical reading, Univ Pr of Amer
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