Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
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Oriental medicines are big business! But manufacturing them tramples animals, some of which are endangered. For example, tigers, the rhinoceros, pangolin (a protected anteater species) and sea horses all die to make medicines such as Armadillo Counter Poison Pill, Laryngitis Pills or Sea Horse Genital Tonic Pills.'
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
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Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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Money is a better tonic than Geritol.
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