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" I will say, get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. "
The Parks, Promenades, & Gardens of Paris: Described and Considered in ... - Page xix
by William Robinson - 1869 - 644 pages
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...but I will say, get health. No labour, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which...lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and...
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The Conduct of Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of life - 1860 - 270 pages
...get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grndged. For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life...lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...labour, pains, temperance, poverty, nor es'' that can gain it, must be grudged. For sickness is a can which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of ! absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as « !\ wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...— but I will say, get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which...hold . of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which cats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...— but I will say, get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which...lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and...
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Education, Volume 8

Education - 1888 - 738 pages
...Mr. Emerson said : " Get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which...lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and...
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Methods of Teaching: A Handbook of Principles, Directions, and Working ...

John Swett - Teaching - 1880 - 358 pages
...for womanhood, both for humanity. In this lies the hope of the race." " Get health," says Emerson, " for sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life...hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters." 5. " Mental labor, rightly directed," says Dr. Lincoln, of Boston, " is a most healthful occupation;...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 65

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1882 - 994 pages
..."Considerations by the Way," must remember the peculiar force and bitterness with which he described sickness "as a cannibal, which eats up all the life and youth it...lay hold of and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 65

1882 - 988 pages
...by the Way," must remember the peculiar force and bitterness with which he described sickness " as a cannibal, which eats up all the life and youth it...lay hold of and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and...
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