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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent,
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent,
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless read more
Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise of health.
Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden?
[Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit read more
Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden?
[Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?]
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is read more
Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is lost. Be timely wise;
With health all taste of pleasure flies.
