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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
Hold firmly to your word.
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One Liner Word Yourself
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Generous Yourself
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
There are eight levels of charity. The highest is when you strengthen a man’s hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
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Charity Hands Man Strength
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Angel Body Force Self Love
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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Equality Evil Goodness Man Philosophy See View World
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Angel Mission Trust
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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Body Man Philosophy Sin
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

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