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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. -- William Wordsworth
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. -- Samuel Richardson
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. -- Guru Nanak
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth. -- Edward St Aubyn
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do. -- Miroslav Volf
One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. -- Eric Alterman
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions. -- Deborah Sampson
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. -- Charles Darwin
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. -- Johann Arndt
Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India. -- Preneet Kaur
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say a salutary way - and Reagan was most important in shifting the grand dynamic thrust of the American historical process by ending that. -- Rick Perlstein
I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to. -- Miroslav Volf
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary. -- John Stuart Mill
The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power. -- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame. -- Robert Southey
The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. -- William Wordsworth
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. -- Anthony Burgess
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality. -- African Spir
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. -- Simone Weil
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. -- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
We are all warned to read labels. The salutary truth is that we shouldn't be eating anything that has a label on it! -- T.C. Fry
Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by. -- Thomas Carlyle
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. -- Aldous Huxley
It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines. -- James Madison
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed. -- Walter Savage Landor
The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope. -- Vince Cable
There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world. -- Sir Fulke Greville
That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare. -- Richard Hough
Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true. -- Leo Strauss
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency. -- J. K. Bharavi
Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence, neither steel nor fire can eradicate the erroneous opinions of the mind. -- Edward Gibbon

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