great health, n.All

Great health (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a superfluity of curative forces so large it need not dispense even with wickedness, as a fish-hook of knowledge.

Great health (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not merely had but continually acquired — and must be, because one gives it up again and again; the argonauts of the ideal are dangerously healthy, ever again healthy.

Great health (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not owned but won again and again, because it keeps giving itself up; its measure is how much sickness it can take on and make well.

Great health (n.) needs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠war and victory, the keen air of heights and winter journeys, and a kind of sublime wickedness — a supremely self-confident mischievousness in knowledge.