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The first wealth is health.
The first wealth is health.
A cheerful heart is good medicine.
A cheerful heart is good medicine.
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.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary read more
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad
and ought to be handed read more
He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad
and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and
friends.
[Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad
agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]
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.
There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life:
brain, blood, and breath. Press the read more
There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life:
brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light
goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute,
and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the
lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres
of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.
