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salutary

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1. salutary - Adjective

2. salutary - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.

Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. W. Somerset Maugham

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. Samuel Johnson

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. Aldous Huxley

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality. African Spir

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true. Leo Strauss

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. Simone Weil

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