What cannot stand must fall; and the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wea...lth we will hazard in the defence of our right. An old farmer, my neighbor across the fence, when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: "No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay; but what you do with the gun will stay so."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. ... My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at where they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check without original energy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The health plan was] constructed to be deconstructed. [Instead,] it was described as an ultimatum by our opponents and therefore ...used to undermine the process of reaching agreement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some fear that if parents start listening to their own wants and needs they will neglect their children. It is our belief that chi...ldren are in fact far less likely to be neglected when their parents' needs--for support, for friendship, for decent work, for health care, for learning, for play, for time alone--are being met.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and wil...l stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the... College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states... All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Infirmity doth still neglect all office Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves... When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »