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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about time

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

Quote by William Falconer about life

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

Quote by William Falconer about simplicity, fear, hope, nature