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"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits."
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"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."
"It's rare to be depressed and be in prime health. Healthy people tend to be happy people."
"All the (sickness and) diseases of the worldly life disappear with the innate bliss of the Soul, the Self. Grief gives rise to the diseases."
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"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria."
"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."
"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible."
"As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption."
"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me."
"Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive."
"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export."
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